John Polkinghorne Quotes
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
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Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
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Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
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God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
