John Calvin Quotes
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
Samuel Alexander
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As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
Nathan Parsons
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I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
Rachel Perry
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
Aage Bohr
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.
Kevin Spacey
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Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
Dee Dee Myers
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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Octavio Paz
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
