Martin Luther Quotes
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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What brings people down is the same thing over and over.
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The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.
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For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
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To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
