W. G. Sebald Quotes
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
Quotes to Explore
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.
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For the first time in 30 years, Texas manufacturing companies have come together with a singular focus to promote and protect manufacturing jobs in Texas. Manufacturing is central to our state's economic security and its jobs are among the best in our state. Our mission is to advance public policy that promotes these quality jobs for Texans.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
