Ambrose of Optina Quotes
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
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People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
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Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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“How does a person become bad?─from forgetting that God is over him.”
