Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we have no notion about whatsoever, no awareness of at all?
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
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We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.
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Those are the kind of guys you build your program around. He's a warrior.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we have no notion about whatsoever, no awareness of at all?
