George Arthur Buttrick Quotes
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
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Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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Everything that we [with Shindzo Abe] are talking about has come to us as a result of the events of 70 years ago. In some way or other, during these 70 years we have been involved in some kind of dialogue on the issue, and that includes the conclusion of a peace treaty.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
