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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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 think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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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.
