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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

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There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

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My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#hopes #music #my own #own #rearrange

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

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