Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.
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If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.
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Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!
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All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
