Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.
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I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
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I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as much artistically. They're different beasts, but to tackle an expansive country like the United States, you're either going to write a big novel, or go in to various points on the map and write stories or poems.
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If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
