Archibald Alexander Quotes
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Unfortunately the first feeling of radiant joy evoked by the revolution has given place to one of pain and anxiety.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
