Doe Quotes
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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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If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?
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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.
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I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.
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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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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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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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If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
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Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
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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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Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
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Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
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God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
