Alexandre Vinet Quotes
A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.
Alexandre Vinet
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
Ed Miliband
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Mac DeMarco
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Orison Swett Marden
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A. E. Housman
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Free love sounds great.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
Mark Waters
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
Fred Rogers
While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.
Joe Gebbia
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Barbara Walters
A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.
Alexandre Vinet