Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'.
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You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
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Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.
