J. M. Roberts Quotes
Confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle that judging is different from politics.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
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We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
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Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
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There are too many things to count that I like about London.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.
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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
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Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
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I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
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The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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Confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle that judging is different from politics.
