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John Shelby Spong Quotes

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

John Shelby Spong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1931

Topics

Life Action Down Morality Build Up

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Great People Think You Jazz Become

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players.

Award Play Aggressive Always Earn

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

Rich Clothes Nice Now Fancy Kids

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Great Research Small Solution Find

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?

Love Happiness Pain Picture Doing

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

Best Feel First Playing I Feel Some

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Mikhail Sholokhov

I Am People Chance Liberty Serve

Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement.

Joseph Pulitzer

Eyes Time Day People World Building

If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job.

Job World Enough Help I Can Person

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Path Stress Religion Spiritual Cult

We are together with the British and Americans because one should fight terror. But we are not going to pay the price for it by endangering Israel and its citizens.

Together Fight Price Pay Going

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

Marriage Women Woman Man Saying

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