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Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
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Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
I cannot forbear warning you against endeavoring at wit in your sermons; because many of your calling have made themselves ridiculous by attempting it.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
You have got to have something in which to believe. You have got to have leaders, organization, friendships, and contacts that help you to believe that, and help you to put out your best.
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behavior. I expect it.