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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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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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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There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
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I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States.
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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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.
