John Callahan Quotes
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
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All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
John Monash -
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
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There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
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If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
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I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
