Ian Mcewan Quotes
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
Quotes to Explore
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.
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We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
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Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
