Walter Brueggemann Quotes
Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
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It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
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I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
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..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!
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I see Billy Donovan as a fixture at Florida for a long time. It would take something very special for him to leave.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any.
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The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.
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No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
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Back at the start of World War Two the authorities forbade the use of the Underground as an air raid shelter. Instead Londoners were supposed to rely on hastily built neighborhood shelters or on the famous Anderson shelters, which were basically rabbit hutches made from corrugated iron with some earth shoveled on top. Londoners being Londoners, the prohibition on using the Underground lasted right up until the first air raid warning, at which point the poorly educated but far from stupid populace of the capital did a quick back-of-the-envelope comparison between the stopping power of ten meters of earth and concrete and a few centimeters of compost, and moved underground en masse. The authorities were appalled. They tried exhortation, persuasion, and the outright use of force, but the Londoners wouldn’t budge. In fact, they started to organize their own bedding and refreshment services.
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Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
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Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
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I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.
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Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
