Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?
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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.
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Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.
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Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.
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I really believe I have just the greatest job. My marching orders are to go out and find a good story.
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Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
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I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
