Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
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I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
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'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
