William Carey Quotes

We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

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• The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

  

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• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

  

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• Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

  

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  

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• We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

  

  William Carey
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