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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.