Doe Quotes
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Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.
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A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
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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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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
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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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I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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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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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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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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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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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 old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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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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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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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 only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.
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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 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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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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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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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
