Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
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The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.
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A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
