"When I first came to Oxford, I struggled……" — Niall Ferguson
"When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution."
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Niall Ferguson
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27 Quotes by Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson has 27 quotes on this site.
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From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the…
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American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to…
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It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and…
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No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
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The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge…
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It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20…
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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
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Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab…
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Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is…
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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan.…
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When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.
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More Anglican Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
— Oscar Wilde
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And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
— George Carey
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in…
— Adrian Desmond
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In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact…
— Auberon Waugh
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which…
— Robert Winston
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Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start…
— Peter Akinola
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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
— Arthur Peacocke
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Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo…
— Peter Slipper
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
— Stevie Smith
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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable,…
— Terry Eagleton
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a…
— Michel Faber
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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the…
— Mark Steyn
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