Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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Chrysler builds great cars.
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Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
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It is your job to make the digital revolution happen. It is my job to make sure that it happens in the interest of the consumer.
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This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.
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No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
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Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.
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All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
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Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.