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Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.
God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.
Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely.
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different.
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.
We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.
It is clear that the radical left has taken over the Democratic Party, leaving behind the party of John F. Kennedy.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I've never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee.
I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.
The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
With all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.
I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.
A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.