Ellet J. Waggoner Quotes
“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
Quotes to Explore
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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My confidence can come back very quickly.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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Evangelical proclamation was essentially subversive. Put in danger by it, the forces of the social body have replied by integrating this power of negation, of challenge, by absorbing it.
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I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
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I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
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“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
