Ellis Peters Quotes
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I actually hate shopping.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
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Like your booty don't stink.
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To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide,And folly into sin!
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
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Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
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All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
