"The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people."
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"What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that."
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"Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise"
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"Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word."
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"When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos."
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"People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself."
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"All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy."
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"Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries."
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"Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’."
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"As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it."
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"In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around."
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
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"I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can."
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"God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from."
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"Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult."
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"I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?"
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"Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people."
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"Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends."
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"Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up."
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"This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people."
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