Doe Quotes
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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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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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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I don’t like the way he looks at you.” My stomach lurched. “What do you mean? How does he look at me?” “Like you’re not a student and he’s not a teacher.
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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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Time does not have the same appeal for every one
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
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I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.
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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
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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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A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
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I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
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Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
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Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
