"It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?"
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"It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom."
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"We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them."
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"Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline."
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"If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives."
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"I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour."
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"I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session."
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"You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!"
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"Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people."
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."
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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
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"I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~"
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"One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it."
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"I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day."
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"My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science."
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"There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?"
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"Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation."
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"People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to."
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"I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege."
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"I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write."
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