Octavio Paz Quotes
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
Octavio Paz
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Taslima Nasrin
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Parker Palmer
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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Charles Bass
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
Park Chan-wook
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The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....
Russell Baker
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
Octavio Paz
