Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
