Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
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PLAYBOY: A Columbia coed was recently quoted in Newsweek as equating you and LSD. 'LSD doesn’t mean anything until you consume it,' she said. 'Likewise McLuhan.' Do you see any similarities?
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
