J. I. Packer Quotes
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
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The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.
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I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
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If you started listening to me in the same time we started rapping, we're aging together.
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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
