Isaac Watts Quotes
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
