Our Immediate Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make…
— Rick Warren
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of…
— Willis R. Whitney
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In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed…
— Edward Teller
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Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family.…
— Isabella Rossellini
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We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information…
— Darrel Ray
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When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness…
— Gerald May
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Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth…
— Michel Foucault
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Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.
— Crazy Legs
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
— Sidney Altman
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Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail…
— Alan Cranston
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Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear…
— Alva Myrdal
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We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to…
— Ralph Waldo Trine
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
— Richard Koch
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The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate…
— Alan Moore
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Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
— David Platt
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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
— Bethany Hamilton
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We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
— Paul Biya
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The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and…
— Marc Garneau
Who Wrote These Our Immediate Quotes
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