Albert Camus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
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i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
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If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.
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Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years. There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back. They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights -- if need be -- with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
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I’m 5-10 and I know it’s not supposed to be this way, but God has blessed me tenfold. I can’t explain it any other way. It’s just a blessing.
