James Mark Baldwin Quotes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances. Care for distress at home and care for distress elsewhere do but help each other if, working together, they wake men in sufficient numbers from their thoughtlessness, and call into life a new spirit of humanity.
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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In a perfect world an idea could be born, nourished, developed and made known to everyone, criticized and perfected, and put to good use without the crude fact of financial support ever entering in to the process. Seldom, if ever, in the practical world in which we live does this occur.
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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
