Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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I would love to go to film school.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
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That's because there were no other women running from my age group.
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
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I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.
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No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
