Since such uncultivated and rude simplicity inspires greater reverence for itself than any eloquence, what ought one to conclude except that the force of Sacred Scripture is manifestly too powerful to need the art of words?


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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
CALVIN JOHNSON
During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I...
CALVIN JOHNSON
I've been a Madden guy since I was little.
CALVIN JOHNSON
That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
CALVIN JOHNSON
I like to dress up every now and then.
CALVIN JOHNSON
It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the...
CALVIN JOHNSON
I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared...
CALVIN JOHNSON
Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
CALVIN JOHNSON
Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
CALVIN JOHNSON
I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I...
CALVIN JOHNSON
I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
CALVIN JOHNSON
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
CALVIN JOHNSON
I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
CALVIN JOHNSON
If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, ...
CALVIN JOHNSON
Retired life's good, man.
CALVIN JOHNSON
For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that fee...
CALVIN JOHNSON
Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over...
CALVIN JOHNSON
The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
CALVIN JOHNSON
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN
From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoveris...
CALVIN TRILLIN
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would gue...
CALVIN TRILLIN
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my an...
CALVIN TRILLIN
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN
As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
CALVIN TRILLIN
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United Sta...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The tempt...
CALVIN COOLIDGE