Alcuin Quotes

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Alcuin

• People
• Men
• May
• Faith
• Baptism

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• To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

  

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• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

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• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

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• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

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• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

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• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

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• I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

  

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• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

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• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

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• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

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• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

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• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

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• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  

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• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  

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• One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

  

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• Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

  

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• God gave me a second chance. I am so very glad with what is going on with my career, but I want to be a success in my relationship with my children.

  

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• The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
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  • Reason

• Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

  

  Alcuin
  • People
  • Men
  • May