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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence i

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. – John Calvin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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Women
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. – John Calvin

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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests. – King Abdullah II

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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that its good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence. – Thierry Henry

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Primitive does not mean stupid. – S.A. Sachs

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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