Alexander Whyte Quotes
There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.
Quotes to Explore
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
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Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.
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Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.
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Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
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Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
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Our ambitions are not limited to quarterly results. Our ambitions are linked to a belief in what we do. And one of the definite privileges of success is being able to see beyond yourself.
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The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
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I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.
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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
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There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.
