Charles Taze Russell Quotes
Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.
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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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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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Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.
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There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.
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When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.
