Alexander MacLaren Quotes
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
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I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
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I'd like to have a family.
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I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.
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Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
