James A. Garfield Quotes
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
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When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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The greatest of all prophets was still one of the prophets, and that large interest in the national and social life which had been inseparable from the religion of the prophets was part of his life too. The presumption is that Jesus shared the fundamental religious purpose of the prophets.
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I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem.
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In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.
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If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.
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Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.
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I think the main thing about football is confidence.
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I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
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You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
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I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man.
