Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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We have kids this year that we want to watch closely.
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
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All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
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I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
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Don't even step out of your garden gate until this matter has been clarified.
