John Lyly Quotes
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
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I had a very funny family.
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The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.
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At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.
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Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
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I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.
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We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.
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I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.
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Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.
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A clere conscience is a sure carde.
