Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'
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After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.
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If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
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You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.
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You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
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Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
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I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'
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Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.
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I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
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To attempt to hold fast an instant id doubtful.
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There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
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It's nonsense. If, in fact, putting one out of four people in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid created 12,000 jobs and $30 billion in economic prosperity, why wouldn't we put every single person in the state of Kentucky on Medicaid? We'd create 48,000 jobs by that logic and $120 billion worth of economic advantage.
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
