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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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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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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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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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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Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.
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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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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.
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For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.
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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.
