Edgar Wallace Quotes
I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
Quotes to Explore
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
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Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
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I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.
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I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.
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Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
