John Rawls Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
Garry Kasparov -
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge … no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command … But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.
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It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium! No, I want to have one. I'll put a chalk board over the bed. One...one.
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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising.
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It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
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Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
