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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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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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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God, beam me up!
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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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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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Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
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I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
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Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band.
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I believe in being positive.
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I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
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I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.
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A penny for your thought.
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats or oligarchs, as opposed to being citizens.
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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
