Edmond Jabes Quotes
The book does not open from left to right or from right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one in the dust.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
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Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
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God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.
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I never control a film. The film controls me.
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There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
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This right of free choice is no special privilege claimed by the Germans alone. It is an elemental requirement of human justice.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
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I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
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The book does not open from left to right or from right to left, but from top to bottom: one page in the sky, one in the dust.
