Georgia Harkness Quotes
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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I love basketball.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.
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It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
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I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
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The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
