Carolyn Mahaney Quotes
The myth that “emotions are bad” puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren’t inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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I'm very humble.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
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A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."
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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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To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.
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The myth that “emotions are bad” puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren’t inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.
