Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.
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You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
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I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
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If fashion is good, it has no epoch.
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I've avoided the press and a lot of stuff that would have made me more visible just because it's not my style.
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Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back.
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Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.
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Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
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There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
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Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.
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I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
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Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
