Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
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There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
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'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013
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All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
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My vegetarian diet allows me to lead a healthier lifestyle, reduce my carbon footprint, and save the lives of more than 100 animals every year. I’m stronger and healthier than ever, and I feel good about doing something positive for myself, animals, and the planet.
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I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.
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I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
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Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.
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I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.
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I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
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I am Sam. Sam-I-Am.
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
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As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
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New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
