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• One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Doe, Language

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• I had glow in the dark bands made up and I've given away a ton of them.

  April Winchell

  Dark, Glowing, Band

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• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  Kate Smith

  Voice, Perfect, Lucky

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• Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

  Artur Schnabel

  Children, Quality, Notes

  Artur Schnabel (1970). “My Life and Music”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

  Dean Lombardi

  Moving, Delay, Opinion

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• In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

  Eva Burrows

  Beautiful, People, World

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• Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

  Linda Chavez

  Tolerance, Population, Literature

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• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  Karen Kain

  School, People, Generosity

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Hard Times, People, Band

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• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Pierre Loti

  Determination, Prayer, Vow

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• For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Government, Leader

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• I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

  Cindy Margolis

  Example, Would Be, Way

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• The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

  William Ames

  Mind, Contentment, Acquiescence

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• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Race, Class, Justice

  "A. Philip Randolph, a Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. vii, 1973.

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• In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

  John Boyd Orr

  Years, Lasts, Fifty

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• Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.

  Iris Apfel

  Choices, Accessories

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• Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

  Carter Burwell

  Unique, Voice, Musical

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• The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

  B. C. Forbes

  Humble, Responsibility, Biblical

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the region of the mind, and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of Truth. “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'

  Amy Carmichael

  Men, Doors, Discipline

  "Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain".

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• Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
  The crushing agony, and hold us still.
  And nowhere is that clearer vision given
  Which pierces a bewildering providence,
  And opens windows upon highest heaven,
  But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.

  Amy Carmichael

  Crush, Loss, Omnipotence

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.432, CLC Publications

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Ignorance, Apathy

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• Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

  David Allan Coe

  Taken

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• Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

  David Allan Coe

  Hiking, Giving, Mountain

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