Oswald Chambers Quotes
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
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Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
