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"The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done."
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
"If it's been done, do it better. If it hasn't been done, do it so well that better is not an option."
"Israel criticizes Hitler a lot, so do we, but they've done something very similar, even worse, than what the Nazis did."
"In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone."
"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
"I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done."
"No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around."
"Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words."
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
"Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever."
"Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."
"The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more."
"You're as good as the best thing you've ever done."
"Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done"
"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."
"When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done."
"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life."
