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Eugene Peterson

If we're trying to set education policy, we have to listen to the education experts.

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A single word, which depicts nothing, would not have been sufficiently expressive to have immediately succeeded the mode of speaking by action: this was a language so well proportioned to rude capacities, that it could not be supplied by articulate sounds, without accumulating expressions one upon the other.

Knowing | Power |

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Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life . . . to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself.

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Eudora Welty

The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by.

Challenge | Vision | Will | Old |

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Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Good | Vision |

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Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Good | Lying | Vision |

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Eugene Peterson

If a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to preach or teach convincingly that the news is good.

Excellence | Excellence |

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Eudora Welty

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

Beauty | Pity | Power | Beauty |

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

The African is here and to stay. How came he to our shores? Ask your grandfathers, Mr. Anonymous, and if they will tell the truth you will or should blush for the crimes.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

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