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Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Miloâ€™s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to… — Michael Chabon
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing… — Walker Evans
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. — Peter Kreeft
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. — Joseph Barbera
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful… — Sam Storms
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the… — Paul Tournier
It is precisely womenâ€™s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing… — Joan D. Chittister
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves. — Dallas Willard
I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done… — Patrick Gale
If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the… — Mas Oyama
Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required… — Michael Cisco
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. — Ilya Prigogine
Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love. — Pope Francis
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to… — Carl Jung
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists. — Immanuel Kant
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast… — Peter Drucker
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about… — Melinda Gates
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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