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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Sergio Leone

Men, Interesting, Sublime

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Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

Tucker Max

Writing, Criticism, Identity

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This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

David Platt

Faith, God, Christian

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The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Intelligent, Today, Return

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The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

John Piper

Son, Calling, Way

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The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.

John Piper

Dream, Church, Covenant

John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.16, SPCK

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Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Patrick Lencioni

Leader, Honest, Authority

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An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

Ludwig von Mises

Attitude, Fighting, People

Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.112, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

John Piper

Echoes, People, Excellence

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Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

Frank McCourt

Kissing, Emotional, Mouths

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Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I'm following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work on display instead of hidden away. I figure if I take my children's work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.

Aerin Lauder

Mom, Art, Children

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Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

John Gay

Winter, Support, Maids

John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

William Scranton

Relationship, Government, People

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Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing them that there's a different way and many perceptions of beauty. You may not be feeling it inside, but if you display it like you mean it, then it can give permission to be kind to ourselves and embrace our individuality.

Erin O'Connor

Mean, Perception Of Beauty, People

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The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.

Jacques Vallee

Past, Class, Culture

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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

Michael Caine

Autumn, Garden, Tree

Michael Caine (2010). “The Elephant to Hollywood”, p.364, Hachette UK

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The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Laozi

Dwelling, Taoism, Doe

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God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

John Piper

Dream, Passion, Thinking

John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

John Piper

Creating, World, Glory

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Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Fred Upton

Voice, Obamacare, Common Sense

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Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

Greta Scacchi

Commitment, World, Persons

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In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Vladimir Kramnik

Opposites, Boards, Body

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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.

Michelangelo

Falling In Love, Men, Giving

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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.

J. C. Kumarappa

Men, Animal, Discipline

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My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Columba Bush

Children, Father, Thinking

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