Vance Havner Quotes
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I am a journalist.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
