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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Opinion, Global Warming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Innovation, Language, Multitudes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

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• It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

  George Washington

  Wise, Hands, People

  Speech at Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., 14 May 1787

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• It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Different, World

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.50

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• Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Fellowship, Kind

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Firsts, Theory

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.71, Bethany House

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• Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.

  Christine Caine

  May, Never Change, Found

  Christine Caine (2013). “Undaunted Student Edition: Daring to do what God calls you to do”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, War, Men

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.

  Errico Malatesta

  Taken, Class, Organization

  "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.

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• Technology has to be invented or adopted.

  Jared Diamond

  Technology

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• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe

  Tom Wolfe

  Dad, Children, Father

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• Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

  Chris Crutcher

  Adoption, Bigs, Deals

  Chris Crutcher (2009). “Whale Talk”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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• A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

  Billy Collins

  Firsts, Succeed, Motto

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• Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

  George Santayana

  Function, Dear, Fulfilling

  The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)

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• Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

  Joseph Pilates

  Teaching, Progress, Truth Will Prevail

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• How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Discipline, Mind, Steps

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• You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man.

  Lil B

  Cat, Men, Rapper

  "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU". www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Angel, Italian, Ghana

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• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Thinking, Allies

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• If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Children, Home

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

  Will Durant

  Paganism, Christianity

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• [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Honesty, People

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154

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