Earl Paulk Quotes
We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Those who go along get along.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?
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The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.
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We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
