Sam Ervin Quotes
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.
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They knew how intensely they had to play. They knew that there had to be a win. We just said that we're going to win this game regardless. I'm going to play the players that have to play to win the game. They buckled down and did the job they had to do.
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Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.
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Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
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All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people in the song, too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.
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Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
