Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
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I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
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That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss. All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
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It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.
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There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people - whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins.
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
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I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.
