Amelia Barr Quotes
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I'm totally a geek.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
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Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
