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    He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

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    Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

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    "His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.

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    Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home. Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?

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    Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

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    How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

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    I am ashamed to say I auditioned three times before I even watched any of the [X-Men] movies. And then after I watched the movies, I was like, "Oh my God, I've been doing it all wrong, why are they calling me back?

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    I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

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    I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

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    I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

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    How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

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    I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

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    I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

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    I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

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    I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

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    I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

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    I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

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    I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

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    I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

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    I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

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    I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

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    I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

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    I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

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    I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand people could have the job. There are people out there that have just as educated an opinion on what I'm calling or describing as I do.

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    I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

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    I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

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    I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

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    I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

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    I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

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    I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

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    I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

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    I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

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    I don't know how it happened, but everyone thinks I'm this crazy b***h. Maybe because I don't have eyebrows. A lot of bands talk s**t about me and I post a blog calling them out. F**k them. The future is bright pink so put on some sunglasses, b****es.

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    I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

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    I don't want anybody to be under a misunderstanding. Donald Trump never even said the word "assassination." That was the word used by Hillary Clinton in 2008, which CNN is calling a gaffe. (impression) "But Trump meant it! Yeah, Trump, he meant it." With Hillary, "It was a gaffe! We all know Hillary Clinton, and we all know Hillary Clinton didn't really mean what she said." Yeah, right. Double standards.

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    I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

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    If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

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    I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

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    I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

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    I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms.

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    I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

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    I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

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    I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

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    If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn’t draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?  Doesn’t His courting, luring, pushing, calling and even ‘threatening’ demonstrate His love?  If He didn’t do all of that, wouldn’t we accuse Him of being unloving in the end, when all things are revealed?

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    If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

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    I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.

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    If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn't follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he's okay with disappointing you.

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    If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

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    If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him from making you gay marry an illegal immigrant wearing a condom on a hydroponic pot farm powered by solar energy.

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    I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

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