John Jacob Astor Quotes
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My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.
Damian Lewis
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Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope
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El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
Antonio Porchia
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In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.
Duncan D. Hunter
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You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.
Chelsea Handler
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
Ben Schnetzer
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I would argue that Jesus has always been recontextualized by people living in different times and places. The first followers of Jesus did this after they came to believe that he had been raised from the dead and exalted to heaven: they made him into something he had not been before and understood him in light of their new situation. So too did the later authors of the New Testament, who recontextualized and understood Jesus in light of their own, now even more different situations. So too did the Christians of the second and third centuries, who understood Jesus less as an apocalyptic prophet and more as a divine being become human. So too did the Christians of the fourth century, who maintained that he had always existed and had always been equal with God the Father in status, authority, and power. And so too do Christians today, who think that the divine Christ they believe in and confess is identical in every respect with the person who was walking the dusty lanes of Galilee preaching his apocalyptic message of the coming destruction. Most Christians today do not realize that they have recontextualized Jesus. But in fact they have. Everyone who either believes in him or subscribes to any of his teachings has done so—from the earliest believers who first came to believe in his resurrection until today. And so it will be, world without end.
Bart Ehrman
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To give something for nothing is to weaken the giver.
John Jacob Astor
