Doe Quotes
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.
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Time does not die; only people.
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[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.
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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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Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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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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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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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 do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.
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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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Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
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I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.
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Only death does not lie.
