Matthew Henry Quotes
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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Never explain, never complain.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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You know, she often tells me that what I do is great. I don't think she ever thought I would end up doing this with my life. But I think she is happier that I haven't changed over the years, that I am still me, that I care about her and that we are the same as we always were. And I think that is what makes her most proud.
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She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.
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I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.
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Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.
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I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
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Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
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I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
