Adoniram Judson Gordon Quotes
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.
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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
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I am fearless when I think I'm alone.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
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No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose.
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
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I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
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I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
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All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.
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Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
