Dan Jenkins Quotes
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
