Tony Abbott Quotes
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
Quotes to Explore
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.
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When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
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We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
