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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Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.
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You okay?" "Fine." "Your heart's beating really fast." "Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it." He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff. "Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if there's trouble." "You sound like Shane." "Well, he did say he'd kill me if I got you hurt. I'm just looking after my own neck." "Liar.
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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.
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“The All Blacks that day looked like great prophets of doom.”