Doe Quotes
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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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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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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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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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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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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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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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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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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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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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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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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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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
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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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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
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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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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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The leopard does not change his spots.
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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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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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God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
