#mit

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗

— John Joly

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The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red. ↗

— Jerry Jones

#hard #personally #red #see

This is the very womb and bed of enormity. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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