A. N. Wilson Quotes
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was an expert horseman.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
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'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'
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I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
