Adoniram Judson Gordon Quotes
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.
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Today is not such a tremendous day for us Rhodesians. We made our decision to become a Republic quite a long while ago, and this is simply the process of formalizing it. Our Independence Day is the great day. Rhodesia did not want to seize independence from Britain. It was forced upon us.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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For do our Theologians pretend to make a monopoly of the word, action, and may not the atheists likewise take possession of it, and affirm that plants, animals, men, &c. are nothing but particular actions of one simple universal substance, which exerts itself from a blind and absolute necessity?
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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.
