Barack Obama Quotes
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.
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If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
