Bill McLaren Quotes
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.
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We're creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.
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But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going on now for 120 years - you have a fifth generation being born into it on both sides. Such a conflict creates hatred, fears, stereotypes, and demonizations of the other. It would be an illusion to believe you can put an end to this overnight.
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
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“The All Blacks that day looked like great prophets of doom.”
