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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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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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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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 ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
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Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
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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.
