Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
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When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
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We'll never change everyone's minds. We're not supposed to.
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Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.
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Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
