Y. C. James Yen Quotes
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
Y. C. James Yen
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
J. C. Ryle
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
Yolanda Adams
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
Naomi Scott
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
Dana Plato
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
Aaron Ashmore
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
Kailash Kher
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
Hansjorg Wyss
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons
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You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.
Elaine Stritch
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Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.
Lisa Loeb
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Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.
Anthony Robbins
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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
Abraham Lincoln
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Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
Y. C. James Yen
