Edmond Jabes Quotes
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.
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A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.
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People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
