Rubem Alves famous quotes
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There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
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Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it.
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Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.
-- Rubem Alves
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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