Allen Wheelis Quotes
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
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None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?
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No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
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Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
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"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
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Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
