Vance Havner Quotes
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Children are all foreigners.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
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We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.
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Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.
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She walked upon the grass, Still quavering. The winds were like her maids, On timid feet, Fetching her woven scarves, Yet wavering.
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Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
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Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
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My mentality is my biggest strength.
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Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
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Then Brás woke up and realized that when you turn that corner, that future you have written and wished for is not always there waiting for you. In fact, it usually isn't at all what you expected... around the corner there is just another big annoying question mark. It's called life.
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
