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 that huge Christian institutions deal a lot with corruption. You see it happen with so many institutions. We've seen the questions with Catholicism, we've seen the questions with some other mega churches that really do exist.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.
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And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.
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'Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?''Very long-term-at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.'
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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.
