Alan Paton Quotes
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends. Interesting Computer Ancient Creation Mathematical Sixty Algorithms Bending Defining Definitions Digital Ends Example Humans Ideas Matter Years Calculations Concepts Years Ago
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When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
