Whittaker Chambers Quotes
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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The public always picks quality.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical Liberalism . . . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
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I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
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Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.
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I'm sure everybody in a family has a person in their family that has a problem ? drug related or whatever. He happens to be the one. It's just one of those things where when he hurts, I hurt.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable - not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity - the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.
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The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.