Doe Quotes
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
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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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For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.
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There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
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Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.
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Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
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The leopard does not change his spots.
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
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I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
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If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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Only death does not lie.
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God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
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It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.
