Nancy Pearcey Quotes
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life.
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Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
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There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
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When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.
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I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
