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• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Men, Names

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• PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

  Diane Wakoski

  Acceptance, Stuff, Good Work

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• To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Cringe

  "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

  Susie Orbach

  Insecure, Ideas, People

  "'Bodies are a big business'". Interview with Julia Korbik, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. December 29, 2014.

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• Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

  Archibald Alexander

  Heart, Moments, Christ

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• I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

  Tori Spelling

  People, Trying, Energy

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• Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Vices, Cost, Sap

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  Bob Barr

  Fall, Government, Sky

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• Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

  Jerry Bridges

  Blessing, Two, Feet

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• The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

  Michael Bergin

  Parent, Proud, Facts

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• In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.

  Zach Braff

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Civilization, Names

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• All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Names, Effort, Doctrine

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

  Curtis Joseph

  Careers, Important, Teammate

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• Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

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• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Europe, People, Goal

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• I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Jobs, Past, Thinking

  "Chris O'Dowd: from TV nerd to unlikely heartthrob... to Broadway leading man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2014.

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• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Thinking, Parent, Lucky

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• Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

  Victor Hugo

  Freedom, Men

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blessing, May, God Bless You

  Yasser Arafat's Speech at the Arab summit in Beirut, al-bab.com. March, 2002.

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• It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  George Saunders

  Goal, Mind, Trying

  "This week in fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

  John Calvin

  Art, Mean, Use

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Goal, Mind

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

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• If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of God, let us believe that we shall reach the realm where Christ Himself now is; for He is the head of the whole body (cf. Col. 1:18), and endued with our humanity has gone to the Father as forerunner on our behalf. God will stand 'in the midst of the congregation of gods' (Ps. 82:1 LXX) - that is, of those who are saved - distributing the rewards of that realm's blessedness to those found worthy to receive them, not separated from them by any space.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Father, Believe

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