John Calvin Quotes
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.
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As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.
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God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
