Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
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Love itself compensates for any diminishment.
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We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
