John Calvin Quotes
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
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Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
