Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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I didn't craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
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There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.
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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
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The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
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[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.
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Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.
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I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
