John Calvin Quotes
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.
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In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
