James A. Baldwin Quotes
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.
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It takes two seconds. . . . No more fishing in your wallet or purse for credit cards.
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
