David Abram Quotes
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
Quotes to Explore
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past - which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour - and that day is Judgement Day.
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Engels once called the British army the most brutal army. During the Second World War, the German fascist army surpassed the barbarism of the British army. No human brain could ever imagine more diabolic and terrible cruelty then those done by the Hitler gangsters at that time. But in Korea, the Americans have far exceed the Hitlerites!
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The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes-our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by 'the death of God' and of the subordinate god, Eros.
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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
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The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
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We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.
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Sometimes I think I might have children while I'm still working, but then I think I'd better wait until I can give them all I want to give.
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Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag.
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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
