Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
Quotes to Explore
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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For students in Iowa, I think it sends the wrong message. I think it undermines our credibility when in one area we have the authority to set standards, we have such a minimum that is, in my opinion, embarrassing.
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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.
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Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.
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Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
