Doe Quotes
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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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God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
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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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Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us.
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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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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
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Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.
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The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.
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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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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.
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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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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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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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A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
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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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He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.
