Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.
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Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
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The American Dream and the American Way are terms which refer to the dreams and ideals of generations of Americans. There is much debate over exactly which dreams and ideals these are, and the term is often used ironically.
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Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
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Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation
