Coleman Barks Quotes
A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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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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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
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Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
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It's the unknown that draws people.
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I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
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The heart doesn’t ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.
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A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
