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“When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.”
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“Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.”
Source : Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons
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“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”
Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
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“In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.”
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“The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.”
Source : "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.
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“I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.”
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“A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.”