William Cowper Prime Quotes
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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You just can't compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE, nothing like this machine I am working for and I'm proud to work for.
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I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.
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And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
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The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
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We have so much data on the web, almost all of it available for free, that we dive into the the data ocean hoping that magically awesome things will follow. They never do.
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It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
