Vance Havner Quotes
I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.
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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
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I'm a painter in sound.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
