W. Clement Stone Quotes
Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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Women and men who are pro-life in every sense of the word marched side-by-side with pro-choice women because they care about so many common issues. We are already joined in common-cause to end sex-trafficking, pornography, discrimination, bullying, and a host of other issues.
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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
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If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
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The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
