Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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It's always good to be working.
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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Culture means control over nature.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.
