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Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.

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• God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Change
  • Perfect
  • Perfection

• You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Tough

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Politics
  • Audience
  • Cinema

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • People
  • Look
  • Variety

• If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

  

  Carl Olson
  • You
  • Control
  • Mechanical

• Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Ready

• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Long
  • Political
  • Education

• I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Just

• Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sex
  • Masturbating
  • Autoeroticism

• Hereditary sloth instructs me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sloth
  • Hereditary

• It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Circumstances

• God respects you when you work, but He loves you when you sing.

  

  Cliffie Stone
  • Work
  • God
  • Sing

• Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.

  

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