Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
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• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
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• I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.

  

  Jessica Chastain
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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I'm not picking up dog shit. I'm a rock star.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• Each crisis brings its word and deed.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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