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Some Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the…
- I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences…
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there…
- That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the…
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
- It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years…
- These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to…
- Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible…
- Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
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