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“I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint”
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“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
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“We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."”
Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”
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“The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.”
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“If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don't like, we make comments on it, too. That's just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don't really compete in that space.”
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“The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.”
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“I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.”
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“What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.”
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“Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather. And it lives.”
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“We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.”
