John Shelby Spong Quotes
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
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It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
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Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
