Edith Durham Quotes
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
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Craft is everything.
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I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
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I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
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I'm not even allowed to take a notebook and a pen with me into the court.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
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The foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
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The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
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Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.
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They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
