Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave. I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can… — Hadinet Tekie Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“If my brother, Dægan, was still alive to herald this moment, I know he would have something poetically moving to say. But… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
“Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he… — Ella March Chase Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
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