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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
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That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
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That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
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That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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