Bob Goff Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I need instant gratification.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
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Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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Satanism has re-emerged among Generation X with an arrogance that mocks its members as it blatantly destroys them.
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I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.
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God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
