Frances Wright Quotes

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Frances Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852

Topics

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Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

Jim Costa

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I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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I don't feel any pressure to joke about #MeToo - in fact, I'd say you shouldn't, because it's a great movement that is exposing some really awful behavior and hopefully changing the culture.

Joel McHale

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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

John Lanchester

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike

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The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

Rush Limbaugh

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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott

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In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Dexter Filkins

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I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.

Bob Beckel

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Competition brings out the best.

Brock Osweiler

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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