Walter Brueggemann Quotes
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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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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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
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It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
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I am very much into the paranormal.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
