Nicholas Wolterstorff Quotes
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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I'm not an easily depressed person.
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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
