Charles L. Evans Quotes
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I'll always be a foreigner.
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Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.
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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
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Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
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The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.
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I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Hope in the future is deeply rooted in our national psyche. It is part of the soul of our nation.
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'You can keep your sword, for you fought proper. Like a proper soldier. Take your blade to paradise, and tell them you were killed by another proper soldier.'
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I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.
