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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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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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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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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Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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I don't remember [when I first visited the Berlin Zoological Garden]. To me, it was important that [in Germany] I could drink Coca Cola. In Romania, my father had bought me a bottle every now and then. To me, that was something really special. And mom and dad always told me, 'We are going somewhere you can drink as much Coke as you want'. To this day, Coke means so much more to me.
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Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
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Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
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Nobody, except Russian directors, can truly reveal all the features of the Russian soul.
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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.
