Carl F. H. Henry (Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry) Quotes
We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.
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As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
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Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.
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Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it's so critical.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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I would say my legs would be my strength. I think I have the perfect legs.
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It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.
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We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
