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I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #god #i #i do #intent

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#go #i #keep #let go #prefer

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#how #i #kindred #meet #more

I have had so many bad auditions. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#bad #had #i #many

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#become #great #practice #reduced #thoughts

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#most #orators #their #vehement #weak

I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue and without a dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give, dogs can introduce us to several colors with names like wildness, nurturance, trust and joy. ↗

— Carolyn Knapp

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I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. ↗

— John Bolton

#body #i #make #only #party

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #does #ecological #financial #financial systems