Doe Quotes
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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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Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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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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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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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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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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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
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Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.
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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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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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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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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's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
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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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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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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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They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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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.
