Bill Crawford Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren't enjoying themselves, when I'm involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time.
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Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
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There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.
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