17 Quotes by Richard Taylor

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    We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

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    Many people... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.

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    What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs

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    When you can sit there and notify each of those folks individually ... that's power, that's saving lives and possibly property,

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    Her home had damage, not flood water. She is west of the levee break. Her large family room roof had been pulled up and rainwater ran down the dry wall, and some of it fell onto the floor, making a mess. Her kitchen window was blown out and water got in that way,

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    Look, before I start, I just want to say to you - it just dawned on me - you are all my peers. I've worked in the same industry as you for sixteen years. I've never met one of you.

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