Doe Quotes
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There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.
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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 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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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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He who does not work shall not eat
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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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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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You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
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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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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 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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God does business with those who mean business.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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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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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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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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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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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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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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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 does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.
