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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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 concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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There are some petroleum refineries that don't have crude and by allowing them to draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve they will be able to produce more gasoline.
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
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I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.
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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
