Bert Greene Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.
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I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.
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I’ve said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.
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A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.
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There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?
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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
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The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
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I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their innocence or their gooey rib butter.
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
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I define success by personal growth; if you don’t continue to grow, you can’t continue to succeed.
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My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!
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New Customers come from the action of past customers.
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There is no such thing as reconstituted lemon juice, only reconstituted taste buds.
