Allen W. Wood Quotes
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.
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The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
