Nancy Pearcey Quotes
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
