"Choice is always performed against a background of habit."

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Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1983). “Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Nicholas Wolterstorff

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“The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into preKatrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. - Joseph Romm210. The generations living today get to retrofit, reboot, and reenergize a nation. We get to rescue and reinvent the U.S. economy.”
“I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.”
“The boring side of business is what makes it work.”
“Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.”
“I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.”
“I like working together with different producers. Of course the process is different, producing a new track is like creating something all new, while reworking an already existing track is more like giving your own twist to the record.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
“martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company
“Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.”

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