Quotes 281 till 295 of 295.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
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You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.
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You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (2000) 63 -
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Source: Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James Meller― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.
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