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 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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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
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Obviously, the fate of our own species concerns us disproportionately. But at the risk of sounding anti-human—some of my best friends are humans!—I will say that it is not, in the end, what’s most worth attending to. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. The Sixth Extinction will continue to determine the course of life long after everything people have written and painted and built has been ground into dust and giant rats have—or have not—inherited the earth.
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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.
