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• We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

  John Calvin

  Fleeting Life, Looks, Ifs

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do.

  Griffith John

  Christian, Spiritual, Baptism

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• I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

  Iain Dowie

  Thinking, Ethos, Training

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• With Android I get to choose from many different products from many different phone manufacturers. With iOS, I get what Apple gives me. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not always the best fit for my personal or business communication needs.

  Mark Cuban

  Communication, Apples, Iphone

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• We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

  Nikki Sixx

  Getting Back Together, Trying, Wanted

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• Bjartur declared that he had never denied that there was much that was strange in nature. "I consider that there's nothing wrong in believing in elves even though their names aren't on the parish register," he said. "It hurts no one, yes and even does you good rather than harm; but to believe in ghosts and ghouls-that I contend is nothing but the remains of popery and hardly fit for a Christian to give even a moment's consideration." He did his utmost to persuade the women to accept his views on these matters.

  Halldór Laxness

  Christian, Hurt, Believe

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

  Dick Cheney

  Usa, Oil, Iraq

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., June 23, 1998.

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• To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Football, New York, Team

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• A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Firsts, Bears

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.1

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• Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Believe, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.253, Columbia University Press

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• For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Design, Mind

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

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• I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

  Jeri Ryan

  Fun, Gun, Hands

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• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

  Mohican Press interview, March 25, 2005.

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• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Picabo Street

  People, Mold, Path

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• And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Teacher, Mean

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• Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Ancient, Mythology

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• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  Faye Wattleton

  Women, Our Society, Way

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• I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

  Fred Willard

  Work, Cutting, Thinking

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• The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

  John French Sloan

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our religious life to ourselves or to anyone is what it fits us for and enables us to do.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Religious, Real, Writing

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• And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Valentines Day, Way, Calmer

  "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

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• The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Blue Dress, Dresses, Politics

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• If the shoe fits, it is probably worn out.

  Craig Reucassel

  Shoes, Boots, Worn

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• Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Thinking, Giving

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.200, Random House

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