Catherine Booth Quotes
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same.
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I work out, but I'm not doing it specifically because I show my butt on TV.
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After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
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Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
