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Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play!
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pacifism
peace
violence
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.
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popular-culture
social-agenda
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination."
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Brian Tracy |
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The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all... ...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school--including 42% of university graduates... ...43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a ..
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the-privilege-myth
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Brian Tracy |
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c51b7e8
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You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.
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inspirational-quotes
life-changing
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Brian Tracy |
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The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Brian Tracy |
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The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.
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Brian Tracy |
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f90c167
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The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
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Brian Tracy |
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b4884d5
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Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE
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Brian Tracy |
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117d950
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Attention is our greatest asset. We all invariably attract what we give attention to.
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Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy |
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In life," she wrote, "fantastically gifted people, people who are driven, can be too much to handle; they can be a pain. In plays, in opera, they're divine, and on the screen, where they can be seen in their perfection, and where we're even safer from them, they're more divine." In the fall of 1968 she found the"
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Brian Kellow |
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0ccaeac
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The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.
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Brian Malloy |
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Consider how many times you've seen either a crashed plane or a crashed car. It's entirely possible you've seen roughly as many of each--yet many of those cars were on the road next to you, whereas the planes were probably on another continent, transmitted to you via the Internet or television. In the United States, for instance, the total number of people who have lost their lives in commercial plane crashes since the year 2000 would not b..
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Brian Christian |
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when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice--
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Speaking of African Americans, the horrors of the African slave trade are more connected to the enslavement unleashed by Columbus than most people realize.26 The Portuguese began enslaving and exporting the native peoples of Labrador beginning in 1501. Early in colonial history, the British paid some tribes to capture members of other tribes; the British then sold these captives as slaves. Charleston, South Carolina, was a center for export..
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Brian D. McLaren |
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It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.
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religion
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Brian D. McLaren |
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746317c
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There is a difference -- subtle but very significant -- between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God -- another way of saying "leaning on my own understanding") and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God."
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Brian D. McLaren |
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3eb2295
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We often fail to deconstruct how proslavery theology still influences American Christianity. But simply put: Theological arguments upheld the institution of slavery long after every other argument failed. American Christian theology was born in a cauldron of proslavery ideology, and one of the spectacular failures of the Christian church today is its inability to name, interrogate, confront, repent, and dismantle the cauldron which has shap..
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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These special holidays give rise to various liturgical calendars that suggest we should mark our days not only with the cycles of the moon and seasons, but also with occasions to tell our children the stories of our faith community's past so that this past will have a future, and so that our ancient way and its practices will be rediscovered and renewed every year.
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easter
lent
liturgical-year
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Brian D. McLaren |
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135de88
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Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn't try to tell you what to think. Instead, it tries to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.
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Brian D. McLaren |
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The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.
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faerie
sylph
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Brian Froud |
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The spiritual experience of expressing a shared hostility can even be confused for the Holy Spirit ... because of how it feels.
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Brian Zahnd |
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Jesus was trying to lead humanity into the deep truth that there is no "them;" there is only us."
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Brian Zahnd |
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Because while we believe in Jesus as Savior of the private soul, we remain largely unconvinced about his ideas for saving the world.
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Brian Zahnd |
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Christian faith is more about connecting our lives with Christ than it is about gaining spiritual information.
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Brian Zahnd |
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on the first Palm Sunday. It happened a hundred and fifty years ago in America. It continues to happen today. If we think Jesus shares and endorses our disdain and enmity for our enemies, we don't know the things that make for peace, and we are headed for
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Brian Zahnd |
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So when Jesus comes along and says to us, "Love your enemy," we instinctively feel how radical it is. He's not just giving individuals a personal ethic; he is striking at the very foundation of the world! The world was founded on hating enemies, and now Jesus says, "Don't do it!" When Jesus said, "Turn the other cheek," he wasn't just trying to produce kinder, gentler people; he was trying to refound the world! Instead of retaliatory violen..
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Brian Zahnd |
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American Christians especially should keep in mind that we as the modern Romans--the privileged citizens of the world's lone superpower--have more in common with Pontius Pilate than we do with Galilean peasants.
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Brian Zahnd |
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This is not to suggest that Christ isn't the source of salvation of the human soul, but I am suggesting that the mission of Christ extends far beyond the narrow spectrum of private spirituality and afterlife expectations. Jesus actually intends to save the world! And by world, I mean God's good creation and God's original intent for human society.
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Brian Zahnd |
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The Beatitudes are deliberately designed to shock us. If we're not shocked by the Beatitudes, it's only because we have tamed them with a patronizing sentimentality--and being sentimental about Jesus is the religious way of ignoring Jesus! Too often the Beatitudes are set aside into the category of "nice things that Jesus said that I don't really understand."
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Brian Zahnd |
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It's true that the gospel of Luke records Jesus as saying, "Blessed are you who are poor"--period. (Luke 6:20) In Luke's Beatitudes, Jesus simply blesses the poor, and the further categorization of "in spirit" is omitted. In Luke, Jesus blesses the poor without reference to what kind of poverty it is. The truth is this: Jesus meets us at our point of poverty, not our place of strength. If we want to position ourselves to receive Christ's bl..
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Brian Zahnd |
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If what we mean by "Jesus saves the world" gets reduced to "saved people go to heaven when they die," then Jesus is simply the one who saves us from the world, not the Savior of the world. But this is not what the apostle John"
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Brian Zahnd |
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Christianity as the ongoing expression of the Jesus story lived out in the lives of individuals and in the heart of society is a beauty that can redeem the world.
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Brian Zahnd |
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed
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Brian Zahnd |
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Not long ago I was in Istanbul, Turkey. While there I toured the Topkapi Palace--the former royal palace of the Ottoman sultans and center of the Ottoman Empire. Among the many artifacts collected throughout the centuries and on display was an item I found quite remarkable--the sword of the prophet Muhammad. There, under protective glass and illuminated by high-tech lighting, was the fourteen-hundred-year-old sword of the founder of Islam. ..
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Brian Zahnd |
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The beauty of the image of God marred in man through the Fall is what the Incarnation redeems.
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Brian Zahnd |
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Feeling intimidated by the Scientific Revolution, fundamentalism takes a "scientific" approach to the Bible--which is perhaps the worst of all ways to approach Scripture. The Bible is not interested in giving (or even competing with) scientific explanations. The Bible is working on a different project than scientific inquiry."
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Brian Zahnd |
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0000483
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The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia.
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Brian Zahnd |
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I pledge no allegiance to elephants or donkeys, only to the Lamb.
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Brian Zahnd |