Apolinario Mabini Quotes
True honor is attained by teaching our minds to recognize truth, and training our hearts to love it.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
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He was a Major now, the ranks long in his past, yet he still carried the rifle. He had always carried a long-arm into battle; a musket when he was a private, a rifle now he was an officer. He saw no reason not to carry a gun. A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.
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True honor is attained by teaching our minds to recognize truth, and training our hearts to love it.
