Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
 
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	The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.   
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	Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.   
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	I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.   
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	I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.   
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	Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.   
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	I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.   
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	Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.   
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	When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.   
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	Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.   
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	Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.   
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	Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.   
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	I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.   
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	Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.   
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	The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.   
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	This is Earth. Isn't it hot?   
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	A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.   
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	The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.   
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	Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.   
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	Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.   
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	I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.   
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	Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.   
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	But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity   
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	I began reluctantly to steal from the present to pay off debts I knew I'd incur in the future.   
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	Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					