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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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
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Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.
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I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
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I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
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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.