"We take our bearings, daily, from others. To……" — John Updike

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• The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his… — George W. Bush
• The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings… — Pope Benedict XVI
• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The… — Lefty Gomez
• The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. — Charles Dickens
• We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans… — James Lovelock
• You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere… — John Barth
• We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets… — M. L. Stedman
• There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach… — Tim Winton
• The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in… — John Stott
• How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which… — Pope Francis

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