Ammon Hennacy Quotes
“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
Ammon Hennacy
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
Oleg Cassini
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I have no television - I hate it.
Patricia Highsmith
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
Gary Sinise
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
A. S. Byatt
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Anna Ford
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
Madeleine L'Engle
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
Edwin H. Friedman
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
Ammon Hennacy
