Dallas Willard Quotes
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Justice is revenge.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
