Michael Horton Quotes
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.
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I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
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I'm sort of a straight shooter.
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
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I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
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As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.
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Hâtons-nous aujourd'hui de jouir de la vie. Qui sait si nous serons demain?
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It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.
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Refusing things - and, specifically, disposable things - should not be confused with sacrifice, she says. Once upon a time, it used to require a sacrifice to buy something. You saved up, you gave up things you might want just so you could put enough money aside to purchase something big or long-lasting or vital. Now, she says, people tend to think the sacrifice is not buying. That's one reason we are swimming in waste, Bea says. In her view, not buying is never a sacrifice, It's a way of saving up for something really important, or saving time, or saving the planet. Or all three.
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In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
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We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.
