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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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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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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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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It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.
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I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
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Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
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I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
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Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.
