Walter Brueggemann Quotes
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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How can you franchise hospitality?
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Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
