Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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To all my fans who's saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.
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The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'
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For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
