George Holyoake Quotes
Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
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We could have had it all...
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
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Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
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A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
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Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.
