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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
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My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. Chris Carter
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings. Debasish Sen
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And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve. Tim Tebow
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I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day. Willie Aames
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The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
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Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely. Billy Graham
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A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace. Ellen G. White
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' C. S. Lewis
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He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. Elizabeth Stanton
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My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are. Arlo Guthrie
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me. Shashi Tharoor
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One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
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My creed is that; Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Ingersoll
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My creed had been formed on unsheathing the sword at Lexington Thomas Jefferson
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Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.