James Emery White famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.
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The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.
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The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.
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The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.
-- James Emery White
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.
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To add to truth distracts from it,
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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