Dan Abnett Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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Any horse can win on any given day.
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Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
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Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
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This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
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But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
