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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.
To your point earlier if a female movie does well they're like "Oohhhh! I can't believe it did well! Maybe the next one will do well, too."
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.
If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved.
You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.
Met a girl the other nite and told her- Before you can be with someone you have to know the value of yourself. So does $200 seem reasonable?
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.
The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.
I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?