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Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
Walter M. Miller Jr
You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
Walter M. Miller Jr
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law-a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
Walter M. Miller Jr
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
Walter M. Miller Jr
Dom Paulo had not expected to convince him. But it was with a heavy heart that the abbot noticed the plodding patience with which the thon heard him through; it was the patience of a man listening to an argument which he had long ago refuted to his own satisfaction.
Walter M. Miller Jr
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Walter M. Miller Jr
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Based on Topics: Courage Quotes, Listening Quotes, Nobility Quotes, Pain Quotes
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
James Taylor
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston
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(About Courage, Listening, Nobility, Pain)
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
("A Canticle for Leibowitz")
More Quotes from Walter M. Miller Jr:
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
Walter M. Miller Jr
You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
Walter M. Miller Jr
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law-a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
Walter M. Miller Jr
But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.
Walter M. Miller Jr
Dom Paulo had not expected to convince him. But it was with a heavy heart that the abbot noticed the plodding patience with which the thon heard him through; it was the patience of a man listening to an argument which he had long ago refuted to his own satisfaction.
Walter M. Miller Jr
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Walter M. Miller Jr
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Based on Topics: Courage Quotes, Listening Quotes, Nobility Quotes, Pain Quotes
Based on Keywords: cors
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
James Taylor
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston