“ There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ It has to do with being a committed follower of Christ. I feel as though I am in transition from admirer to disciple. ”
- Jim Cole- Copy
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“ I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is. ”
- Pat Roberts- Copy
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“ I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity. ”
- David E. Price- Copy
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“ It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. ”
- Robert Jackson- Copy
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“ The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement. ”
- John C. Danforth- Copy
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“ In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head… ”
- J.D. Salinger- Copy
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“ If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him.... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves and take up their cross. ”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer- Copy
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“ Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers. ”
- Horace Bushnell- Copy
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“ There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things… Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan. ”
- George Voinovich- Copy
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“ Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. ”
- Zell Miller- Copy
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“ If we faced issues that required little more than a few turns with a Phillips screwdriver, then we perhaps could afford the luxury of political gamesmanship and the personal pleasures of some old-fashioned partisan political towel popping. ”
- Mike Huckabee- Copy
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“ Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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