David Bentley Quotes

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

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• There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.

  

  Barry McGuire
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  • Days

• Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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  • Going
  • Phones

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
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  • Living

• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Enough
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  • Lord

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
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  • Taken
  • Exercise

• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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  • Me
  • Rest

• I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
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  • I Love You

• Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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  • Consistent
  • Simply

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
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  • Wrong

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
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  • Philosophy
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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
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  • Independence

• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
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  • Italian
  • Steal

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Achievements
  • Asked

• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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  • Week

• It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Together
  • Risk
  • Looks

• Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • Nation
  • Simply
  • Sows

• Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Pushing

• Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.

  

  Nora Gallagher
  • Family
  • Books
  • Survival

• More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

  

  David Bentley
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