Given Quotes
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The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."
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Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
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I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.
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As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
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In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.
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So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to these writings.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
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I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.
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The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.
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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
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In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
