J. C. Ryle Quotes
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, 'What the heck is going to go on here?'
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
