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I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
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Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.
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The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.
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You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
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When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.
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Patriotism is the religion of hell.
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I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
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Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
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When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.
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Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.
