Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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I think life is a chain of events.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be doing this. I'd still be writing songs. I'd still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.
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I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.
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Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
