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"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.
Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.
We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.
I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.
Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.