Philip Schaff Quotes
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.
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The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
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A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
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A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
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It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
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Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
