Miroslav Volf Quotes
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
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The future starts now.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.
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It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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She soars on her own wings.
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Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted....For in all the world this state of heart is best.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
