Edmond Jabes Quotes
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
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The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is on the straight line which is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.
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That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.
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Once you go blind, unfortunately, words are all you've got.
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As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
