John Calvin Quotes
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
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COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION .. THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH .. ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR .. I LOVE MY COUSINS ..
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People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.
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My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.
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The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us.
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Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.
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Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
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Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
