Raymond Williams Quotes
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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
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Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.
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I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.
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Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.
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There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.
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You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
