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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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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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 longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
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I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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All human progress is preceded by new questions
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
