David Brainerd Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
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• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
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  • Rembrandt

• The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Best
  • Parent
  • Search

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
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  • God
  • Evil

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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  • Yourself
  • Accept

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
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  • Soviet

• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
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• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
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• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
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  • Working
  • Modeling

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
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• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
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  • Decision
  • Lying

• We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • Great
  • Society

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia out there in the world, but it is what it is. I am who I am, and the people in my life are who they are, and they love us, hate us, for whatever reason. It is what it is.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

  

  James Altucher
  • Good
  • Business

• It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man.

  

  Frank Abagnale
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  • Movie

• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

  

  David Brainerd
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