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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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him?
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.
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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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.
