William Wilberforce Quotes

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

William Wilberforce

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
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• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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• I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
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• You never grow out of high school sadly.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

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• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
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• For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Inspired
  • New York
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• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  

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  • Doing
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• You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
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• All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Attention
  • Eyes
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• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  

  Nader al-Masri
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• Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

  

  Bob Proctor
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• What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

  

  Morris Dees
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  • African
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• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
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  • Christian

• 'Alice Cooper, Christian: ‘The World Belongs to Satan’' Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews.com, December 31, 2014.

  

  Alice Cooper
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  • Christian
  • Satan

• I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Good
  • Friends
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• Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Christian
  • Silence
  • Strive