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Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean.…
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Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
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For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
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America is an unusually religious nation.
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It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.
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It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
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Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong…
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Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces…
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Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome…
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Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity.…
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The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about…
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That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks…
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has…
— Alan Villiers
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
— Jean Batten
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
— Jean Batten
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As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
— Fritz Sauckel
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks…
— Rodney Stark
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without…
— Chris Priestley
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Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who…
— Billy Campbell
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An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at…
— Roger Ebert
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