Gene Veith Quotes
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
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Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
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I only like boutiques.
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When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
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To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
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Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.
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These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.
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Our guys are hungry to prove people wrong. This team has taken a lot of flak. Everywhere you turn, people are questioning how well this team can come around. I just said, 'Give it time. Give it time.' Well, here we are, and whatever happens the rest of the year, I'm going to be proud of this team.
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One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
