William Murchison Quotes
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I love working in New York.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.
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From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
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Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
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A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
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This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.
