Gerald Vann Quotes
The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

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I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us.
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She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
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Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.
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During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return
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If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp.
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Being in the middle of nature and the woods is my favorite thing
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One thing is to not look at fitness as something that you do at a prescribed time of day in a prescribed room and a prescribed building. You should incorporate physical activity throughout your day.
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The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.