Vance Havner Quotes
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
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Rappers make what's in, in. If we want to bring back something like Jordache, we just say it and the girls start wearing it. We have a lot of pull.
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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
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When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.
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I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.
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...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
