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Doe Quotes by J M Coetzee
- Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for…
- His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need…
- He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is…
- But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
- It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so…
- His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
- Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi