Edmond Jabes Quotes
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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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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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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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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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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
