Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.
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...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
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If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I’m going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin my life if I had to live partially.
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Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
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I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.
