Eugene Rivers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.
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Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
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Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.
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And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.
-- Eugene Rivers
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
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The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.
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If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
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