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One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.
Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.
To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
The world has no reason for fighting in our defense, and as a matter of principle God does not make cowardly nations free.
Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.
How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.
The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?
Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.