Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
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Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.
