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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What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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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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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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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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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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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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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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Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.
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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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May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.
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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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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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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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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
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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.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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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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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
