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My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.


Tonya Harding
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery
Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.
Neil MacGregor
Tags: Had Been World
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As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.


Gunther Schuller
Tags: Music More Even
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.
Gunter Blobel
Tags: Family Our Way
My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
Warren Giles
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
John Abizaid
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Courage is a kind of salvation.


Plato
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An idea is salvation by imagination.


Frank Lloyd Wright
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Tags: Home Me Even
Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
Greg Walden
Tags: Home Our Them
Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Tags: Good God Home
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.


Dorothy Day
Tags: Our Believe Poor
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.


Thomas Aquinas
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: God Because Our
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.


Michelangelo
Tags: Nature Love Never
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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.


Ryszard Kapuscinski
Tags: Know Our Never
I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
Olga Kurylenko
Tags: Home Always Had
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
Tags: Home Food You