"All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him"
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"It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising."
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"You have to first experience what you want to express"
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"And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting."
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"If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos."
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"We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear."
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"You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of."
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"To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back."
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"If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!"
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"Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit."
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"There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say."
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"No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance."
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"It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge."
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"Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot."
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"Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect."
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"I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of."
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"How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?"
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"You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government."
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"The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment."
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"Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos."
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