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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.


Timothy J. Keller

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ELBERT HUBBARD I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
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DOCTOR WHO What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
DOCTOR WHO Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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DOCTOR WHO Good place to put things - cellars.
DOCTOR WHO Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
DOCTOR WHO When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
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DOCTOR WHO I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use...
DOCTOR WHO There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream....
DOCTOR WHO Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
DOCTOR WHO Resistance is useless.
DOCTOR WHO The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,
DOCTOR WHO I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.
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DR. WHO Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell...
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LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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TIMOTHY NOAH There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants o...
TIMOTHY MURPHY Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH John Doe No. 2 .
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH just keep your sense of humor and be yourself.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people b...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would....
TIMOTHY HUTTON The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frost...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid....
TIMOTHY SIMONS There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
TIMOTHY FERRISS I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's...
TIMOTHY SIMONS The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH