Neil L. Andersen Quotes
The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.
