Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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I think it would be best for us to start Mark.
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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.
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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
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Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
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The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
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God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
