Doe Quotes - Page 372

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein does not in Iraq.

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

Does Donald Trump accept the results and concede graciously, pursue legal action, or tell his followers to take to the streets?

What does [Hillary] Clinton do if she loses? Concede? Blame the Russians? Or the FBI?

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.

I let them [Kanye and Pharrell] be them; they let me be me. I'm just a little boy that does poetry whose friends got famous, and I like it that way. I like to be found. I don't want to be overexposed. I love when people discover me and discover my music.

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.

Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.