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The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes… — David Limbaugh
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and… — William McKinley
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of… — William McKinley
Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good. — William McDonough
One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are… — Sybille Bedford
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite… — Parker J. Palmer
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do… — Stephen Dobyns
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end — Georg Buchner
Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming… — Lottie Moon
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started… — Jean Plaidy
I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers… — James O. Fraser
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept. — Sheila Walsh
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and… — Salvador de Madariaga
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term. — Randy Pausch
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. — Arshile Gorky
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his… — Alexander Hamilton
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if… — Paul H. Dunn
And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid… — Frederic Farrar
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and… — Phillips Brooks
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper,… — Charles W. Nibley
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study… — Helen Keller
Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins. — Blackie
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by… — Robert South
I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and… — William Blake

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