A. C. Dixon (Amzi Clarence Dixon) Quotes
Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
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Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
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Everyday - it's a gettin' closer,Goin' faster than a roller coaster.Love like yours will surely come my wayA hey - a hey hey.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
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Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
