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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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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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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We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
