Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.
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We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.
