John McCrae Quotes
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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I don't much like looking back.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Ay, call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod;They have left unstained what there they found -Freedom to whorship God.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through. ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand.
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
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If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.
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My pots are not like Hans Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow.
