Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified.
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Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude descending the stairs' is the result of the desire for motion. Here he has also eliminated representative form. This avoids the connotation of ideas which would interfere with the success of the main issue - the sense of movement.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.
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I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.
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I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.
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Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Jesus never pussyfooted.
