George Fox Quotes
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
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I have a doughnut every morning. The same kind, from a street cart. Vanilla frosted with sprinkles on one half, weirdly. How hard is it to sprinkle the whole thing?
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.
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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
