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“Do you believe in miracles?”
Source : Television broadcast of Olympic hockey game, 24 Feb. 1980
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“The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly - unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive to resist.”
Source : "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.
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“An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.”
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“One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.”
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“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.127, A&C Black
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“I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.”
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“Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.”
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“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.”