Anthony Clifford Grayling (A.C. Grayling) Quotes
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
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Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.
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Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
