Benjamin L. Corey Quotes
We must become people who remove barriers to God, instead of people who are busy installing new ones.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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I feel that the moment a date happens that it’s a social encounter that is potentially a sexual encounter. And the question of sex needs to be negotiated from the first moment on.
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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«You can not be an absurd optimist, but you can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality.»
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When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
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I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.
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My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.
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Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
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I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.
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I always loved television. I always loved movies.
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God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
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If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
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Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration for ever!
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The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.
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When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
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We must become people who remove barriers to God, instead of people who are busy installing new ones.
