John Calvin Quotes

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

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• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

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• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

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• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
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• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
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• As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
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• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
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• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
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• It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
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• Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

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• We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

  

  Andrew Marr
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• The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Education
  • Violence
  • Danger

• When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
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• Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.

  

  John Calvin
  • Men
  • Success
  • Danger