Edward T. Hall Quotes
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
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Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
