John Calvin Quotes
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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She was poison in a pretty bottle.
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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
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You cannot experience the death of anybody
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Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.
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I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.
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Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
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I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."
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I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.
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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
