J. C. Ryle Quotes
The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
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I definitely believe that there are songs that, as artists, we don't know the full potential.
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I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.
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Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
