Oswald Chambers Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.
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I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
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Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.
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A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.
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If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
