Colin McGinn Quotes
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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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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The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
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Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.
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The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
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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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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.
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When you are intimate with the person you love, you create unlimited possibilities for the growth of your relationship. Intimacy has the potential for lifting the two of you out of the lonely world of separateness and into the stratosphere of emotional oneness. Conversely, the number one enemy of any marriage is the lack of intimacy. If two people do not know each other deeply, they can never become what the Bible calls ‘one flesh.
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To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.
