Francis Chan Quotes
...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
Quotes to Explore
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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I'm such a foodie.
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I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
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This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
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Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
