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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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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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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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.
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We shall now conclude our remarks on the opinions entertained before the Christian era... the observation of the present course of nature presented too many proofs of alterations continually in progress on the earth to allow philosophers to believe that nature was in a state of rest or that the surface had remained and would continue to remain unaltered.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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When I get sick I start scripting the video tape that I'm gonna leave behind when I die. Sometimes imagining that even makes me cry. Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it. 26.
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
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People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.
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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
