Dan Millman Quotes
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
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However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form.
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
