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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a power base for the enemy, that is, a stronghold.
Elisabeth Elliot
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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence it may be a theatrical encore.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
Anthony Holden
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The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Anthony Holden
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
Anthony Holden
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
Anthony Holden
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When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
Anthony Holden
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What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
Anthony Holden
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I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden
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The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
Anthony Holden
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
Irving Stone
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Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.
Carl Sandburg
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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
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The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
Conrad Black
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Life is to be lived, not controlled.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
Samuel Johnson
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It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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