Martin Luther Quotes
My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
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Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
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Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.
