David Brainerd Quotes

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

David Brainerd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 20, 1718 - October 9, 1747

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I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Maxine Waters

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Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

Michael Chang

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I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.

Spike Milligan

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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tom Smothers

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What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

Mary Gauthier

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If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Mary Lou Retton

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It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.

Mike Krieger

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The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

Jason Calacanis

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My business wouldn't be doing as strong as it is without the support of WWE.

Diamond Dallas Page

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When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

Bobby Berk

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No man is worth sulking over.

Pratyusha Banerjee

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