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thinking names speak
Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do. Charles Wesley
two long piety
Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.
thinking doors rivers
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us. Charley Reese
theatre littles amazed
I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time. Charley Pride
texas louisiana detroit
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.
television saws
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
taken fans performers
Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
thinking important excuse
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. Charles Lederer
thinking theatre way
Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut. Charles Laughton
thinking determine persons
What a person thinks about determines what he is.
three kind persons
Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?
time brain earth
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. Charles Lindbergh
truth light people
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.' Charles Lyell
tools levels littles
No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.
taken kingdoms causes
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
thinking names giving
Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it. Charles Koch
trying way new-things
The only way you improve is to try new things.
taught drink century
To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.
thinking stories lines
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality. Charles Kuralt
thinking pressure reputation
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
touched conscience
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
texas perfect beef
I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
towns stories kind
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
teacher retirement literature
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
thinking white justice
Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?
thinking air years
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.
thinking reality strange
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
two evil guy
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. Charles Krauthammer
tuesday giving victory
Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
thinking views america
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
thinking two brain
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
thinking world affair
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.