Francis Spufford Quotes
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
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So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece George Michael: I can't make you love me.
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Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
