Witness Quotes - Page 26

• The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Goal, Faithful

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Eye, Math

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• There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial

  Benjamin Harrison

  Government, Oath Of Office, People

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.153, e-artnow sro

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• He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

  Voltaire

  Courage, Bravery, Doe

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• I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Past, Achievement

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Miserable, Poet

  "Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Medwin, 1823.

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• When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.

  James Redfield

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

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• Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

  Edward Norton

  Water, Long, Important

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beach, Fun, Interesting

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

  Karen Armstrong

  Children, Grief, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Pain, Culture, Plight

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.16, Penguin

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Block, Flower, Brutality

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• Who would have thought when they came to the fight?
  That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Black, Satellites

  "The Soul Of A Butterfly". Book by Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Elephants, Sloth, Mud

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• I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Proud

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Real, War

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• Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Eclipse Of The Sun, Fifteen

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

  Anthony Shadid

  Jobs, Bears, Journalist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Dying, Citizens, Journalism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Parent, Transition, Exciting

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift-and keep singing.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Song, Brother, Struggle

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• The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Simple, Reality, Self

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• Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

  Brent Stirton

  Photography

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