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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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
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if reason ruled the world would history even exist?
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I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
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You can learn to write. But what you write is something that depends on your taste and on your vision or whatever. Also, of course, the music I listened to inspired my idea of music. When people ask me "Where's your inspiration? Where does it come from?" I have no idea. Music is about music. Not about life and love.
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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.
