David Dark Quotes
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.
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Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
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The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.
