John Edward Christopher Hill Quotes
Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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Bernie Sanders tapped into that trade issues; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to Donald Trump.
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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
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I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.
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Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
