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- Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
- I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that…
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
- Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their…
- Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely…
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that…
- One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the…
- 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's…
- The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air…
- I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite…
- I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'…
- In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often…
- In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
- Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
- The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire…
- The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
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