Christopher Dawson Quotes
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
