Brian D. McLaren Quotes
We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.

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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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I don't want my daughters to grow up the way that I grew up. I want them to actually see Mommy in a fulfilled relationship that's amazing for her.
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When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.
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So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.
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If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
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I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.
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I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.
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As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique gifts.
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The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
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We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove.