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• God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

  John Piper

  Grace, Drink, Easier

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• When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Talking, Doubt

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  Alan Cumming

  Real, Struggle, Character

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 7, 2010.

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• We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.

  David Cooperrider

  Organization, Systems Change, Inquiry

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• Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Long, Consistency, Purpose

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• So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

  Julia Gillard

  Leadership, Way, Next

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• The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

  Tobias Wolff

  Art, Writing, Optimistic

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• An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the moon. In the 1980s, it was ending the Cold War. Our generation's challenge will be addressing global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy

  Eileen Claussen

  War, Moon, Men

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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• Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Growth, Development

  "Why the economy needs nature" by Tony Juniper, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.

  L. Tom Perry

  Song, Prayer, Children

  "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

  Theodor Herzl

  Roots, Giving, Wish

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Giving, Onions

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• To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Blessing, Today, Infinite

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.2, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

  Michelangelo

  Life And Love, Heart, Eye

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• Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Teacher, Teaching, Temperature

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

  Alan Kay

  Long, Term, Long Term

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• Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!

  Richard Rohr

  Important, Matter, Dignity

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• So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Needs, Looks

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• True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Pain, True Joy

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.223, Moody Publishers

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• Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Light, Defeat, Now And Then

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• There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
  my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
  long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
  one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

  Cokie Roberts

  Marriage, Hate, Long

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