Jerry Falwell Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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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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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
