J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.
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We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
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I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
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Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
