George Whitefield Quotes
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
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Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.
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I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Gravity is a response to geometry.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Christianity, like most religions, works with fear. Sins can be confessed and you are 'Clean again' and can start to sin again without thinking about your old sins. We believe that people should ask themselves why they sinned. They should show some responsibility.
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Humor is intrinsitc to Christianity.
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
