J. Gordon Melton Quotes
As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
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Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
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The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.
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As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.
