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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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.
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I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
