Andrew Gilligan Quotes
Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
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There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
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He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
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Since the dawn of the twentieth century, we have been told that the federal government has the answers to solve all of society’s problems. We have been promised, by supposedly serious men who have sworn an oath before God and man, that if we just give Washington, D.C., more of our money and more of our personal freedom, the problems of poverty, illiteracy, racism, unemployment, crime, and corruption will all be solved. Today, each and every one of these problems is worse than it has ever been. The federal government and its blood-sucking bureaucracies do not have a solution to the problem, they are the problem.
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All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That, of course, is the approach to the Bible that fundamentalists take. And that’s one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.
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If you have some moral flaws that need fixing, make it a priority to correct them.
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Not content with covering one divisive subject today, I've also done a piece about Boris Johnson. It's not blind to his flaws but argues for a bit more nuance in how we see him...
