John Strachan Quotes

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

John Strachan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 12, 1778 - November 1, 1867

Topics

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Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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I've been to L.A., it's horrible. Don't waste your money on the flight.

Andrew Buchan

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During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Robert Musil

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I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

Ann Marie Buerkle

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The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Angela Braly

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Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.

Stephen Rodrick

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U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

Stefan Sagmeister

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About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

Robert Vaughn

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I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.

Lu Guanqiu

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I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

Julia Stiles

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No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Jared Polis

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