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		You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking. You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine, you’ve found yourself praying less, less thrilled about worship, scripture, or church attendance. You’ve been so focused on sorting and purging your theological theories that you’ve lost track of the spiritual practices that sustain an actual relationship with God. You may even wonder if such a thing is possible for someone like you.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian D. McLaren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kaskade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. B. Smoove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Weller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yitzhak Rabin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Bowman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Hagelin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, the minor key, to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word tragedy means in itself unpleasantness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karen Blixen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wayne Newton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Billy Joel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking. You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine, you’ve found yourself praying less, less thrilled about worship, scripture, or church attendance. You’ve been so focused on sorting and purging your theological theories that you’ve lost track of the spiritual practices that sustain an actual relationship with God. You may even wonder if such a thing is possible for someone like you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian D. McLaren