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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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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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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Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.
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Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.
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The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.
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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.
