Doe Quotes
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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
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Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
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When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.
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Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug
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What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.
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I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
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The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
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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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Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
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God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.
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The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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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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A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
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Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
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The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.
