Karlfried Graf Durckheim Quotes
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
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In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.
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Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
