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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When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?
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Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
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Everything begins in Paris.
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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.
