Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd Or Night kept chain'd below.
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I love connected culture.
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Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
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I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
