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• Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Belief, Kind

  Andrew Solomon (2017). “Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

  Andrew Solomon

  Jobs, People, World

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kindness, Believe, Order

  "Q&A with Andrew Solomon". Interview with Bronte Coates, www.readings.com.au. May 27, 2014.

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• You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

  Andrew Solomon

  Motivational, Hurt, Self

  "How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

  Miep Gies

  Thinking, People, Special

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• Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Thinking, Church

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• I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes cros­sed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Grateful, Opportunity

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• We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Leader

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• We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Enlightenment, Doctrine, Inward

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• The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Hard Life, Church

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• I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Self, Circles

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• What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Running, Heart

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• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, Our Generation, India

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• Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Giving, Water

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.35, South End Press

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• The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

  Jim Nussle

  Want, Budgets

  "CBO: Social Security funds needed to balance books", www.cnn.com. August 29, 200.

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• Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

  Christopher Lasch

  Roots

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• You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Chinese, Cuba, Cigar

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Government, Kentucky

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Differences, Independence, Being Free

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jail, Term Limits, Enough

  "The Liberty Manifesto". Speech at the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., www.cato.org. May 06, 1993.

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• So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Team, Two

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• Everybody needs four things in life:  Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

  Lou Holtz

  Believe, Things In Life, Four

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• The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

  Lou Holtz

  Team, Goal, Defense

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• To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

  Fred Trueman

  Heart, Bigs, Bowlers

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• Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah

  Chester Bennington

  Wall, Fall, Purple

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