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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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).
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All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic, and I certainly wasn't a very good student.
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Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
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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.
