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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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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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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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
