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“If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells Book Matter Christian Religion Heaven Opinion Fields Morality Eternal Foolish Kingdoms Resurrection Mistaken Maintaining Eternal Life Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:Genesi Ad Litteram

Source: Genesi Ad Litteram

“Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.”

Hard Bigs Seems Sports Right Now Weight Average Bones Muscles Maintaining

Author:Lisa Leslie

“When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal thread, whether you're an athlete, a dancer, an actor or a singer. It's all about maintaining your body because that allows you to do what you do.”

Way Needs Body Certain Actors Universal Instruments Athlete Your Body Singers Dancer Thread Maintaining Maintenance

Author:Josh Peck

“Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.”

Mind Body Environment Higher Resolution Maintaining Cleanliness

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.”

Used Activity Organization Guarantees Maintaining Incompetence

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.”

Real Feelings Jobs Pleasure Issues Design Argument Simplicity Features Accomplishment Capability Maintaining Usability

Author:Donald A. Norman

“The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.”

Stills Two War Reality Ability Party Republican Illusion Wings Democratic Series Democrat Obstacles Storm Gates Outsiders Entity Maintaining Phony Two Party System

Author:Justin Raimondo

“Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.”

May Position Ought Profit Conquer Reverse Defeated Conquest Maintaining Carts

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Looks Important Father Party Proud Excited Worried Maintaining Brides Precision Doubtful Facial Bridal Bridegroom Bridesmaids Sulky Demure Father Of The Bride

Book:Miss Manners on Weddings

Source: Miss Manners on Weddings

“Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.”

“Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.”

People Thinking Giving Done Jobs Political Very Good Hip Hop Hips Hops Good Job Maintaining Hip Hop Music

Author:Conor Oberst

“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

Want Writing Made Book Character Certain Order Emotion Novel Knowing Information Reader Amount Paid Structure Guides Maintaining Payment Fidelity Paid Off

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Made Reality Might Pieces Style Might Have Been Convincing Maintaining Garments

Author:Arlene Croce

“Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.”

“children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, can support yourself, and have already begun the work of creating or maintaining an extended family.”

People Needs Children Parent Support Identity Creating Maintaining Forged Extended Family

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“Healthy living involves taking care of myself - both mentally and physically. It means surrounding myself with positive and supportive people, as well as exercising and maintaining a well-balanced diet. At this point, healthy living is just a way of life.”

People Way Wells Mean Care Exercise Healthy Diets Balanced Healthy Living Supportive Maintaining Balanced Diet

Author:Demi Lovato

“My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.”

Way Feelings Feet Healthy Independence Financial Maintaining Feet On The Ground Financial Independence

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Giving Feels Wells Too Much Industry Dumb About Yourself Maintaining Mystique

Author:Miranda Richardson

“Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government”

Ifs Government Moral Citizens Taxes Obligation Get Away Maintaining Moral Obligation

Author:J. P. Morgan

“I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.”

“The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.”

People Thinking Way Kind Different War Use Emotional Anxiety Hollywood Bases Crisis Threat Atmosphere Dictator Maintaining Hysteria

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.”

Children Made Two House Challenges Cases Paid Symptoms Maintaining Diapers Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Mika Brzezinski

“The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .”

People Should Two Law Causes Common Cities Democracy Rich Cutting Errors Latter Multitudes Maintaining Quarrels Oligarchy Above The Law

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.”

Way Country Levels Results Aim Crisis Maintaining

Author:Joe Slovo

“The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.”

“Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.”

Way Writing Humans Persons Love Is Concepts Crucial Solitary Theologian Maintaining Trinity Personhood

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.”

Country Higher Cost Mass Increase Embrace University Relative Elites Maintaining Higher Education

Author:Derek Bok

“The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.”

Elements Continuing Offensive Maintaining Momentum

Author:George C. Marshall

“Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.”

Has Beens Paid Consumers Maintaining Taxpayers Mandates Subsidies

Author:Charles Koch

“Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.”

World Seems Difficult Fatherhood Maintaining Difficult Things

Author:Kelly Slater

“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.”

Years Art Ideas Real Cities Building Models Drawing Scales Weather Crafts Experts Engagement Interaction Urban Recognizing Sculpture Maintaining Through The Years Collaborating

Author:Janet Echelman

“Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.”

Hard Might Running Certain Race Performances Critical Maintaining Prudence Equilibrium Tactical Running Back Jeopardize Hydration

Author:Dean Karnazes

“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”

“Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.”

Spirituality Keys Balance Humanism Key To Success Maintaining

Author:Bikram Choudhury

“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”

Way Political Lying Common Silence Practice Truth Is Dirty Maintaining Another Way High Places

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.”

Sin Vision Cures Maintaining

Author:John Ortberg

“Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.”

Ifs Way Feels Can Do One Thing Critical Breathe Locals Consumers Maintaining Gaming Local Business

Author:Jeremy Stoppelman

“If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.”

Ifs Needs Important Ideas Action Order Responsibility Moral Destiny Mankind Creating Important Things Humanism Empowering Insult Ethical Our Destiny Maintaining Our Actions Framework

Author:Stephen Fry

“The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.”

Moments Depends Degrees Tolerance Strain Maintaining Cohesion

Book:Saint Joan

Source: Saint Joan

“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.”

“I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.”

People Spiritual Christ Honest Habit Discipline Tradition Difficulty Maintaining Pilgrimage Spiritual Disciplines Spiritual Direction

Book:Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

Source: Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

“Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.”

Men Ends Purpose Energy Given Interest Community Powerful Class Particular Combination Concentration Efficiency Maintaining Aristocracy Powerful Man Energy Efficiency

Author:James F. Cooper

“Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.”

States Government Christian Church Religious Talking Concepts Regard Separation These Days Restraint Maintaining Church And State Separation Of Church And State

Author:D. James Kennedy

“The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.”

States Problem Christian Church Religious Effort Wall Maintaining Church And State Guise

Author:Irving Kristol

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.”

People Sex Difficulty Maintaining Correlation

Author:Barney Frank

“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.”

“A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.”

Self Levels Advice Awareness Dignity Self Awareness Memoir Remarkable Maintaining High Level Anecdotes

Author:Steve Martin

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