Jim Elliot Quotes
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,And trifles life.
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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
