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The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.
Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.
"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.