Doe Quotes
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The leopard does not change his spots.
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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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That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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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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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
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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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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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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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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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Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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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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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
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Some music really does suck!
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.
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Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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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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To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
