John Calvin Quotes
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
Sam Worthington
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
Pankaj Mishra
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
Sam Harris
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
E. O. Wilson
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
Maria Bamford
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, '*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?'
Margaret Cho
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With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
R. J. Cutler
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'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
Kate DiCamillo
