John Calvin Quotes
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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There is a kind of malicious wink, a contemptuous sneer in the public voices claiming the hippies as heroes. The hippies are a desperate herd looking for a master, to be taken over by anyone - anyone who would tell them how to live without demanding the effort of thinking. Theirs is the mentality ready for a fuhrer.
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I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.
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Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.
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Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
