Alvin Plantinga Quotes
One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
Quotes to Explore
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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'From what I’ve read,' I said to him, 'the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.'
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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You give me the awful impression, I hate to have say it, of someone who hasn't read any of the arguments against your position ever.
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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
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The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
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One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
