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Related Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are. CARL HAMMERSCHLAG I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil... HEATHER MONTANO We can probably turn them down if we want to. But it's hard to do. It's something we need to get som... CARL WEINRICH We're not looking to give people a hard time, but we do ask people to exercise some common courtesy ... SEAN WHITCOMB Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not ca... DAVID N. DINKINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have so much that we've gotten from the college and again, if we can help to see them through som... LARRY MORRISSEY We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense. KALVIN BAKER He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... It's a safety issue as well as common courtesy. PAUL TRANSIER "How can we preach Christ to the lost when they cannot see His agape love within us? Before we can r... TAMARA N. GREEN My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being d... DAVID CASSIDY Once I got to the 11th green, I saw D.T. had made birdie at 10 and 11 and drew within one. I told St... TIGER WOODS We don't really have any stars. But we do have some depth. Jasmine Green and Katrina James went into... MATT KOFF Life gives us lessons to learn and if we dont learn those lessons we will keep going round in circle... GARY F EVANS... We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, ... JOHN COREY WHALEY What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o... LAWRENCE LINDSEY What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o... LAWRENCE LINDSEY Big things can be changed, if you want all sit-down style restaurants, tell them in the survey. If y... CHAD MILLER Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down s... PHILIP JOHNSON We want to see our Dublin students become entrepreneurs, to be the creators and innovators we know t... ANGI BRUNNEY Hopefully, later on down the line we can play them again and give them a run for their money. JARRAD HENRY A Rival Can Become an Important Ally If WE Find A Common Ground IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble ... LAWRENCE LINDSEY Employees, medical staff, volunteers and visitors who use tobacco are not required to quit, but only... DAVID GRIFFITH I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can ... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Every little thing is important. If you can correct the little, small things, you don't have them be... DONNIE HENDERSON If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a horrific event for us. We don't want to be chasing people down the highway. That puts us in d... TERI BARBERA We want to get involved and plant some trees. It used to be a dump, and our vision is to have it bec... LOUIS DIMENTO the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y... ELIZABETH SCOTT We can play with anybody in the country. If you want to grind it out, we can grind it out. If you wa... ANDRE ALLEN It can be extended without difficulty. It will be used when needed, if the market does not need it w... CLAUDE MANDIL We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want... IAN WILLIAMSON When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M If you do genuinely care about people and love them a little, eventually you all have this common go... GERRY HARVEY Diversity and race relations are getting to be hot-button issues on our campuses. I think the bigges... SASHA NEUMANN If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the Briti... TED CRUZ Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r... ALBERT CAMUS If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can... PETRA NEMCOVA Ideally, we'd want to work ourselves out of business. There will always be some people who need help... DOREEN MARCHIONE We've had some problems. If we want to stop the run, we can stop the run. But we might not be able t... LYLE SETENCICH I don't want to imply there aren't enough people here. Of course there are a lot of people looking f... KATHY KELLY Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo... NERISSA IRVING We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future to... BARBARA JORDAN Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts... SEAN GIBSON It was kind of spooky at first. But now we have a neighbor two doors down and we can see some street... RAY BIGELOW We wanted to attack at all times, even if it meant that we were just going to attack, pull the ball ... DOUGLAS SCOTT We are hoping the issue can be resolved because we know our residents want the service. BILL MARION We are very short staffed. This makes wait times hard to predict. People can wait anywhere from five... ALAIDA LARES We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want. TRE COOL We knew it'd be enough to win, but you don't want to just win, you want to make sure you can keep th... ASHLEY WOMACK It's important to plan ahead, the timing is relevant. I can see some transportation method being use... JASON NELSON I want to see her finishing the race so that we can move farther later on. I don't think the distanc... DAVID HOFMANS They started knocking down some shots. They took some things away with their defense, but we got som... ADAM LORIA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I honestly don't know if he's the same caliber as some of the best 3-year-olds down here. But if he'... DALE ROMANS If you can do it, you move the car off the road and we fight about whose fault it was later, ... It ... KATE HARPER We continue to hope that this issue can be resolved peacefully, and we want to work within the frame... JOHN NEGROPONTE If you want to help by going down there, call us as soon as you can. We are starting training at 9 a... LISA BROWN They've got a good defense, ... I'd like to see their defense later on down the road, but we won't p... JABAR GAFFNEY It's too early to assess where we are in the turnaround. Revenue is down and we want to see them ris... DAVID HARTLEY During winters, we always see stories, the tragedies of fires or carbon-monoxide poisonings. The dev... ERIN BIEHL Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, the... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I want to see if there is any way we can be supportive, HAL BROWN You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s... CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal... CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the... CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds. CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive. CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya! CAN YüCEL We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we wan... ALEXANDRA STODDARD We want it to be up tempo with our athletes. We try to be up tempo and get up and down the court. In... DENA SIEVERS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM We have a good supply today, but I think it is important to plan for what the impacts can be down th... CRAGIN MOSTELLER We drove the ball and just didn't finish some drives. If people want to make us go down the field at... TONY DUNGY Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD There's a lot of stuff going on. It comes down to not being as deep because of injuries. We'll have ... CHRIS BUCKNAM The one thing we can do in New Orleans, if they are coming down here, is feed them some good food. W... DICKIE BRENNAN If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of t... THOMAS JEFFERSON We want results even if they're wrong. They could come back and tweak whatever was needed later. LANNEAU SIEGLING If for some reason the voters really want 3,500 homes and no commercial and they vote down the PUD p... DAN GRIFFIN Our past experience is the manifestations of our thoughts..
we see what we want to see,
we listen wh... MIROR_VEGAS We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. RICHARD G. SCOTT We want to try to merge some of the things that happen in Belfast to draw more people to the festiva... JOE BROOKS We want to do what we can to help those people down there, JOSEPH REED The issue is that the buildings need to be accessed by the occupants and the users. We can lock the ... JEFF SUTTON I don't want to see the event become a corporate billboard but if that's the only way it can go on a... ARTHUR HARDY We can't keep as many people as some teams can. The issue is cash. This team will be competitive for... BILL POLIAN The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and ch... NINA MUNK If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home. ERICK JACKSON The issue is, can the mandate change in some way to stop this sort of differentiation between global... MOHAMMAD AKHTER I don't claim to be the best musician. If being the best means I earn the right to look down on peop... LINDSEY STIRLING
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictio... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the i... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I found that the clergy did not understand their own book ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cr... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputat... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his d... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history be... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education a... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon r... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendenc... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that r... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL You have no right to erect your tollgate upon the highways of thought. You have no right to leap fro... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To hate man and worship god seems to be the sum of all the creeds ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL At the bottom of the ladder is Catholicism, and at the top is Science ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Is it not wonderful that the creator of all worlds, infinite in power and wisdom, could not hold his... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of th... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is somethi... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL