Donald M. MacKinnon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
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. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
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The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.
-- Donald M. MacKinnon
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
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It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.
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Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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