Doe Quotes
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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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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
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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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If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
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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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I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability." Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?
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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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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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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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Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow Of slight beginnings to important ends.
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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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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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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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Some music really does suck!
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I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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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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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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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
