N. T. Wright Quotes
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Yes, I'm planning to go out again next summer, on concert tour, as a result of the success of the book and the CDs.
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
