George William Russell Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
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I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
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I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
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Some of my best men are women!
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
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The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.
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Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.
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Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
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You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
