John Tillotson Quotes
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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I don't fear anything now.
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One with the law is a majority.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
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Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
