John Wesley Quotes
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.
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I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.
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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.
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There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap.
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To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
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Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
