Colin McGinn Quotes
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.
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UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.
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I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
