William Ames Quotes
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	My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.   
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	I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.   
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	I don't know how people recognize me.   
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	I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.   
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	The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.   
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	I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.   
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	The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.   
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	Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.   
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	If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.   
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	I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.   
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	I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.   
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	Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.   
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	Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.   
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	One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.   
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	I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.   
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	I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.   
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	I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.   
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	When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.   
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	There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."   
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	At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.   
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	Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!   
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	When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.   
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	The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					