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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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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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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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
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I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
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Don't try to live too many days at a time.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.