Doe Quotes
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We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.
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Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.
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Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?
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Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.
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A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.
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One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.
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A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.
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Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
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Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.
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I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
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Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
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One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.
