Ella Maillart Quotes
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
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Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.
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We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
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The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
