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John Updike quote: "You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue."
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue. John Updike
The argument was wilful, The alternatives untrue, We need no metaphysics. To sanction what we do. Or to muffle us in comfort. From what we did not do. Louis MacNeice
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage. C. S. Lewis
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..."If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make Himself visible, - I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form - like yourself in all the person, image, and very form as a man. Joseph Smith, Jr.
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. Jane Fonda
Maya Angelou quote: "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how..."
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze."I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing... but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat. Spider Robinson
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? Bob Hope
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. 'Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy... Alexander Graham Bell
The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seedof death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two. Jean-Paul Sartre
Jack Kerouac quote: "This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they..."
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. Jack Kerouac
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel. Chuck Klosterman
Stephen Covey quote: "to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not..."
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. Stephen Covey
We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it. Ayn Rand
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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