William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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The fact that Iran asked for these discussions this morning - they are not negotiations - illustrated the fact that Iran is concerned about its international position.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.
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What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.
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In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
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The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
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Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
