Aaron Allston Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.
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Print created national uniformity and government centralism, but also individualism and opposition to government as such. (p. 267)
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I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
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We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
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A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
