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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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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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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You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
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On climbs, there is a general way we manage fear. We look at things objectively, separating out perceived risk from real risk. You can really bring down the level of fear by knowing the real risks and setting aside the others. You also know that panicking just makes things worse.
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There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
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A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
