Charles Deems Quotes
The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.
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Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.
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I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.
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The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.
