Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
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I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
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Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.
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You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
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The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.
