Allen Lacy Quotes
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.
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For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there. In a way, that's what being an instrument in all about . . . to make it possible for His love to reach more of His children.
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You and I are cobbled out of carbon cells that were once other things entirely. We could have a carbon cell in one of our elbows that was once part of a trilobite's tail. Or a cell from Atilla the Hun's moustache in our eye. Or an ancient lotus petal in our tonsils.
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When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.
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Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
