Os Guinness Quotes
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
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Man is apart of society. Society is a part of nature and the animate nature is the part of the physical universe. Therefore no political practice can guarantee ultimate success unless it is guided by fundamental philosophical principles.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
