Quotes with over-reaching

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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Alan Cumming Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
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  • Havelock Ellis All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carl Schmitt All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Buddy Valastro All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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