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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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
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I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.
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That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'
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I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.
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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.”
