Craig S. Keener Quotes
Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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Affluence means influence.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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I do not choose to choose what I choose.
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Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
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I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones.
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My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
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Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised.
