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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him." »Martin Luther
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"Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong." »Elizabeth II
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service." »E.B. White
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"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." »Joseph Addison
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising." »J. Todd
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"service without selfness, is not service" »Samuel A. Lucero
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory." »William Hallman
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"With me, are many rivers to cross" »Pauline Musariri
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"There are no answers, only cross-references." »Joe Moore
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"The last Christian died on the cross." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees." »Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863.
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"I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced." »Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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"I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." »Ernest Hemingway
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