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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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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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
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I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.
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I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
