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Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.
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Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
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Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.
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I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
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I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!
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When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.
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I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
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Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.
