Brennan Manning Quotes
Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
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Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.
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'Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,'On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;'To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!'Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!'
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
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I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
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I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.
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You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.