Zalman Quotes

#1. Writing is its own intoxication.

Charles Bukowski

#2. Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

William Gibson

#3. There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

Jim Cramer

#4. Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

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#5. Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.

Jenny Lewis

#6. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

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#7. Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth without tension.

J. Grant Howard

#8. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

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#9. No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

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#10. For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

Joe Scarborough

#11. States and Provinces and curricula around the world track students by age. This practice is so common that we do not think of it as tracking. With few exceptions, a six year old must go into first grade even if that six year old is not ready or was ready for the grade one year earlier.

Zalman Usiskin

#12. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

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#13. Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

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#14. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

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#15. Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

Shneur Zalman Of Liadi

#16. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

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#17. My tact is that you don't change the definition of marriage for one group, homosexuals, because you have to change it for all the groups. So you don't do it, particularly if people in California vote on it, don't want it, they think that the heterosexuality is a societal stabilizer.

Bill O'Reilly

#18. The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then came the trees. Apple, plum, and the Japanese black pine.

Cathleen Schine

#19. I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

Tim Berners-Lee

#20. When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

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#21. Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

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