William Herndon Quotes
Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
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It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's proof that your song is being heard. But I think it's more about the work for me and being proud of what I'm doing in music than what people think about my music. I want to like my music before you like it. I don't want to sell anything that I don't really like. I don't want to sell myself short just to get to the top of the charts. It doesn't feel that great. Feeling proud of your work feels greater than being at the top of the charts.
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A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.
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Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'
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Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
