Gerrit W. Gong Quotes
In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today.
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
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If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships.
