Brian D. McLaren Quotes
My concern is that by making heaven after this life the destination of our way, we are spiritually forming people who run away from fire, disease, and the violence of our world.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.
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I wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways There'd be no distance that could hold us back
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We have to develop a model of prosperity that 4.5 billion more people can share and we don't know how to do it.
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All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
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When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, 'That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.''
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I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
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My concern is that by making heaven after this life the destination of our way, we are spiritually forming people who run away from fire, disease, and the violence of our world.
