Adam Langer Quotes
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
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As long as he's not getting in trouble, let him go out and have fun.
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I love to watch my movies. You have no idea...I would watch my movies like over a hundred times.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
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Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals.
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True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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We should not be acting precipitously to undermine the basic tenet of this program, that has worked well for 70 years by providing a defined, guaranteed benefit.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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..there was a certain comfort in surrender.
