Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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I made the miscalculation of taking Mr. Rubio at his word that he wouldn't seek re-election if he lost the presidential primary.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
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You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.
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It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
