Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all.
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Sometimes we need to be reminded that there are things we are facing that only God can save us from.
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Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
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So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
