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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Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be apart In solitary uplands far away, Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray, Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.
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There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
