Doe Quotes
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
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The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.
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Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.
