“When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters.… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The very idea of penalizing based on propensities is nauseating. To accuse a person of some possible future behavior is to negate… — Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Copy Share Image
“They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in… — Lori Petty Copy Share Image
La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society,… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
“[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the way, the rock has… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about,… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!"… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Joan spoke kindly, explaining patiently, as he always patiently explained things to her. “It’s like in that book you gave me, Jane… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things.… — Kathleen McGowan Copy Share Image
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e.… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
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