Isaac Watts Quotes
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
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We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.
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Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
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It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
