John Calvin Quotes
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
Quotes to Explore
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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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.
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Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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Tender is the nightFor a broken heartWho will dry your eyesWhen it falls apart
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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
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Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
