Mark Russell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.
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No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.
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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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Kobe is going to have a lot of detractors. Unfortunately, we are not 10 games over .500. We are going to be in the playoffs, that says something about his performance.
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If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.
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Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
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Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.
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The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
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In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
