Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians - whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.
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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
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By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians - whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.
