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Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.
What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?).
The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?
What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
The Constitution does not guarantee freedom of worship - it guarantees freedom of religion. And this is what I call America's first freedom...
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.
People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.