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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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
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If you keep sugar apart from us, we cannot have experience of its sweetness. If we eat it, then only we know its taste. A man cannot get Mukti if he simply repeats 'Rama, Krishna, or Govinda' for a thousand years. He must repeat it heartily (knowing the secret).
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.
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When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
