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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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.
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I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.
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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.
