Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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«¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?»
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The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
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I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.
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The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
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There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
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I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
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A thought is an idea in transit.
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Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more, but some old timers say it is to keep the ghosts away. Others say it lights the stage for the ghosts to play. Whichever theory one adheres to, most people agree: a great theater is haunted.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
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Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.
