Eric Metaxas Quotes
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together.
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Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
