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taken burden-of-proof morality
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position. C. S. Lewis
taken long wonderful
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. Cecelia Ahern
taken perfect care
Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. Cecelia Ahern
taken thinking needs
I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums. Carrie Brownstein
taken hands firsts
We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. Carl Sagan
taken hands firsts
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands. Carl Sagan
taken men animal
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again. Benjamin Rush
taken believe joy
I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it? Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
taken thinking lucky
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it. Antoni Tapies
doors world
They Open A Door And Enter A World C. S. Lewis
doors way sides
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways. Carrie Brownstein
doors keys rooms
I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open. Bill Bryson
doors years four
We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to. Bill Bryson
doors clothes black
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. Bette Davis
doors church yards
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?) Bill Bryson
doors keys delight
The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through. Charles R. Swindoll
doors knock staff
We could go out and knock on doors and ask, 'Did you get our letter,' but we don't have enough staff for that. Daryl Walk
doors decision political
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. Jimmy Carter
two way poet
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
two commandments knows
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. C. S. Lewis
two differences looks
When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
two tides sometimes
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
two swings guy
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. Carrie Fisher
two feelings mind
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
two enemy stronger
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. Carl Sagan
two government firsts
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? Carl Sagan
two age leisure
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson