Martin Rees Quotes
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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I have a hyper personality.
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I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.
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I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and that follows the whole path of the limbs.
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Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
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It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.
