Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Quotes to Explore
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
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Charity befriends the children- From us, through us, in us. Behind this door, Charity waits. Alone. Tolerant. With a smile as deep as your core.
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There doesn't need to be a God for me.
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I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!
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The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests.
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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
