Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
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As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
