Quote by Terry Eagleton
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is a

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. – Terry Eagleton

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Future
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Faith
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each others speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. – H. L. Mencken

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I just cant say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors. – Kyle Chandler

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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. – Robert H. Schuller

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Graduation

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. – Joyce Carol Oates

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As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of whats known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Health

The future and eternity are two entirely different things. – Doug Coupland

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Future