Doe Quotes
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.
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May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.
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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
