Polycarp Quotes

#1. There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Karen Nussbaum

#2. Truth was the only superglue that could mend the cracks in her family.

DiAnn Mills

#3. The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.

K.J. Parker

#4. Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Bill Simmons

#5. Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian,

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#6. If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.

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#7. Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Joseph Heller

#8. If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

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#9. Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

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#10. For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

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#11. A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Irving Stone

#12. I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

David LaChapelle

#13. Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me? ... I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.

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#14. But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

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#15. Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

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#16. Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

Annie Besant

#17. I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.

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#18. Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.

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#19. Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

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