Ellen G. White Quotes
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
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Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
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So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them
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When you think of rock and roll and metal, a lot of it is based around the riff. If you can sing over the riff and what the arrangements are going to be like, you have to leave space for what most people consider one of the most key essential parts, which is the vocalist.
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Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
