Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
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Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
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God, beam me up!
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If they don't let us in through the front? We'll come through the side!
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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The ancient owls' nest must have burned.Hastily, all alone,a glistening armadillo left the scene,rose-flecked, head down, tail down
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Arma tenentiomnia dat, qui justa negat.
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Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
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I am not gonna die because some network executive thought I was fat! It's so wrong! It's so wrong that women are asked to live up to this skinny ideal that is totally unattainable. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!
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What was he doing, the great god Pan,Down in the reeds by the river?Spreading ruin and scattering ban,Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,And breaking the golden lilies afloatWith the dragon-fly on the river.
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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
