N. T. Wright Quotes
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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'Our duty, Richard, is to be decorative and stay alive long enough to be promoted. But no one expects us to be useful! Good God! A junior officer being useful? That'll be the day.'
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.
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Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
