Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
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In terms of the contemporary food system we see a lot of racism currently. Obviously we have a large supply of food. A lot of people don't examine why that is the case, but there are a number of nonwhite migrant workers being exploited every day.
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I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
