Charles Taze Russell Quotes
Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.
Quotes to Explore
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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Though he made a joke when asked to do the right thing, he always did it. He was so much more in earnest than he appeared. He did not do himself justice.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
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The Indian race are waiting and praying.
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Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.
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An individual should hold an awareness of God and His love all the time. He should not separate his consciousness from the Divine while he journeys on the way, nor when he lies down nor when he rises up.
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Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.
