Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
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I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.
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I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
