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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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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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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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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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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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.
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Generally there is Stigler's law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
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Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.
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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.
