Dan Miller Quotes
Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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One step too late. Another disappointment, breathing in crawl space, leads to another messy ending.
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Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.
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Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.
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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.
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Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.
