N. T. Wright Quotes

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

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• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

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• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

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• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

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• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
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• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
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• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

  

  Laura Osnes
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• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

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• Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?

  

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• Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

  

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• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  

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• Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

  

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• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
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• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

  

  N. T. Wright
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