Brian Morton Quotes
He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.
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Most often the presence of such gifts of the Spirit creates a desire for their exercise. By them a man is drawn to the Word, to Christ, to men. For this reason a deep and sincere desire to enter the ministry is the commonest evidence of the Lord's calling. It is no sure criterion, however, for the gifts and desire are not always joined.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking.
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He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
