Octavio Paz Quotes
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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It's been fun for me to figure out what I am in the world of fashion. I pull more now from my hometown, the aesthetic of the mountains and Arizona and the old western, vintage kind of vibe mixed with a sort of California bohemia.
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Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
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I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
