Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.
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And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
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The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.
