James G. Frazer Quotes
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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If you believe in something then you should do it dont let anything stand in your way.
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Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.
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Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
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To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.
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The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
