Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
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There is no revolution like the Communist revolution. You simply burn all the books, kill all of the thinking people and use the poor proletariat to create a very simple benchmark to gauge social change.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.
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But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
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The idea that God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia, and he’s able to write this down perfectly and it contains the answers to all - don’t waste my time with that bulls**t. Also, the archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic, it seems? Crap.
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Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
