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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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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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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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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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Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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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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Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
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For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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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.
