Jenkin Lloyd Jones Quotes
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
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A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
