John Gresham Machen Quotes
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
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Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.
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God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
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The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
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Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
