John Calvin Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
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How can you help the human race progress?
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Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it - along with everybody else - and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that one.' But I didn't really see myself on 'True Blood.'
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We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
