Francis John McConnell Quotes
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.
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I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.
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The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what returns is what existed prior to the dollar standard, and that is a global gold standard, which is the only thing that really works.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
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She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it.
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
