John Gresham Machen Quotes
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
Quotes to Explore
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
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You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
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I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
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Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
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Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.
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We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.
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During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
