James Hal Cone Quotes
Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
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It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
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Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.
