Edward Feser Quotes
Thus it is a very serious lapse in scholarly competence and/or intellectual integrity for someone like Dawkins, an Oxford don who sees fit to pour scorn on the scholarly acumen and intellectual honesty of others, to treat the Five Ways as if they constituted Aquinas’s complete case for God’s existence, to ignore Aquinas’s responses to various objections, and to tell his readers that Aquinas gives “absolutely no reason” for certain claims that, as I have said, he actually devotes many hundreds of pages to defending.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
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I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.
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I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
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I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'
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I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.
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My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.
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His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.
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My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.
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John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
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After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
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They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
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They have a new coach. We have a new team.
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I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.
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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.
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Thus it is a very serious lapse in scholarly competence and/or intellectual integrity for someone like Dawkins, an Oxford don who sees fit to pour scorn on the scholarly acumen and intellectual honesty of others, to treat the Five Ways as if they constituted Aquinas’s complete case for God’s existence, to ignore Aquinas’s responses to various objections, and to tell his readers that Aquinas gives “absolutely no reason” for certain claims that, as I have said, he actually devotes many hundreds of pages to defending.
