Paul Tournier Quotes
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
Dan Webster
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
Walther Bothe
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
Natalie Cole
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Magic Johnson
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
Edgar Lee Masters
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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.
Annie Proulx
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Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I'll have millions of nerds on my case.
Linus Torvalds
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
Art Buchwald
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
Alain de Botton
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
Lake Bell
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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Eric Sevareid
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the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.
N. T. Wright
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
