John Ortberg Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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My parents did not care whether I saw an opera or understood a statue; all that could be considered in time, in the future, for operas and statues belonged to urban culture, and my kinfolks said any person with any kind of background could acquire a city civilization, but that few city people could ever learn the culture of a rural country.
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The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
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You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
