David "Doc" Searls Quotes
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
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It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.
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For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.
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Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents? And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
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Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
