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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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
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You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
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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.
