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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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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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
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When you need a friend most is when no one is cheering.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There’s something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. There’s something in my very blood that owns Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate, A thread of water, churned to milky spate Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
