Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Quotes
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One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
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I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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I don't have any desire to be better known.
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Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.
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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
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I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.
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The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.
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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
