Edward Feser Quotes
If you make the effort to work through the ideas I’ll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.
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We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.
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My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
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If you make the effort to work through the ideas I’ll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.
