Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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You win some, you learn some.
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.
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Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
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It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
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The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
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For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled... Satan is anything but harmless.
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Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
