Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.
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When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
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It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
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I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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Back when it rained in '55, they didn't have waterproof glue. Now we have waterproof glue.
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People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
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What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering most in this circumstance, in this condition. We vet refugees from Syria for a period of 18 to 24 months before they're allowed to come to the United States. And, you know, if you will permit me, I think we know more about them by the time they get here than we know about the president's finances.
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Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
