Doe Quotes
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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
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Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.
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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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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
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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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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 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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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.
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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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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
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To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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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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If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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I often think it's comical
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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
