William Henry Houghton Quotes
Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Sometimes he feels as though God is nothing more than a set of jaws that bites down on his heart.
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We're all working hard to try to improve it in any way in the league and particularly officiating is a big deal, ... I think we've got very professional people there, and they work hard at it and we need to be a part of helping them and not working against them.
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Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.