Carlos Eire famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.
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The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me.
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Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.
-- Carlos Eire
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from
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There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
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Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy
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