William Barrett Quotes
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.
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Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs.
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On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
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There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
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He (Lakers owner Jerry Buss) knew what he was trying to get accomplished, but still in all, it never quite seems to match up.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.
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Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
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To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.
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We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
