Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
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'Kiss Land' is like a horror movie.
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Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
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We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.
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I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people.
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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.
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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
