Walter Rauschenbusch Quotes
The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing else has ever come close.
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The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
