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If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#creation #effectively #god #implicitly #involved

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#almost #exactly #fact #feminine #hasn

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#arctic #circle #considerable #far #gulf

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#am #ask #aware #ballots #confirm

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#directing #doing #drawings #key #mind

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#been #best #character #collected #had