Anne Carson Quotes
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
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The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.
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I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
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When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
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We are all shocked at this incident and our thoughts are with those who have been injured.
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While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.
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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.
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It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
