Gerald Vann Quotes
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
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We must respect the referee every time.
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A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
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When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
