Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
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None wise dares hopeless venture.
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I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
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look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far
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When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
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As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.
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I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.
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At the beginning they wanted me to sing as sweet as a flower, even Ernesto Alonso put me a strapless dress and high heels and as soon as I went down the stairs I fell. I didn't even make it to the stage.
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All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
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At an early age I found myself facing the incomprehensible, the unthinkable, death. Ever since, I have known nothing on this earth can be shared because we own nothing. There is a word inside us stronger than all others - and more personal. A word of solitude and certainty, so buried in its night that it is barely audible to itself. A word of refusal, but also of absolute commitment, forging its bonds of silence in the emfathomable silence of the bond. This word cannot be shared. Only sacrificed.
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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
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Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.
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While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
