Charles Taze Russell Quotes
The present is a time of testing, we believe, to many of the Lord's people. Have we in the past been active merely because we hoped for our glorious change in A.D. 1914, or have we been active because of love and loyalty to the Lord and his message and the brethren!
Quotes to Explore
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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The present is a time of testing, we believe, to many of the Lord's people. Have we in the past been active merely because we hoped for our glorious change in A.D. 1914, or have we been active because of love and loyalty to the Lord and his message and the brethren!
