Doe Quotes
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If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.
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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
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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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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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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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I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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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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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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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
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God does business with those who mean business.
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
