"A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture."

-- Mark Driscoll

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“To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.”
“Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.”

Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.11, Harvard University Press
“I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.”
“It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.”
“Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.”
“The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, p.289, Faber & Faber
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
“In Western Civilization, our elders are books.”

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