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John Ortberg Quotes

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1957

Topics

Fear Thoughts Think Anxiety Prey Us

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

Life Politics People Small Better

A beginning is the end of something, always.

Spider Robinson

Beginning End Always Something

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Attitude Reflection Black Matter

The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Fake Well Done News Done Say Never

The examined life is no picnic.

Life Picnic Examined

I'm very attached to Real, more so than Barcelona.

More Real Barcelona Than Attached

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Good Today Religion Civilization Our

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Good You Say Nothing Get Even

I'm not really into musicals.

Musicals Really

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Brain Body Kind May Who Organism

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

Children Time Perspective Childhood

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

Relationship Teacher School Students

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