Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I never said half the things I said.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.
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My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
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Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
