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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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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Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.
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Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
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Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
