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The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who doesn't work very much or think very hard, and who spends most of his time meditati...

Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion

New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my head of kids being restrained against their wills, of kids cryi...

Perfect Glass

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that colle...

Vincent Price, His Movies, His Plays, His Life

Perhaps the most powerful cause of the breakdown of the closed society was the development of sea-communications and commerce. Close contact with other tribes is liable to undermine the feeling of necessity with which tribal institutions are viewed; ...

Karl Popper

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers...

Leo Tolstoy

Any feeling of security is only in your head. Anything could happen at any time. As long as you are strictly someone’s employee at one company, you’re a liability on the balance sheet. I say that as a business owner. We cannot trust any governmen...

Chris Lutz

Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs? Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl, that's just cowardly. See, we might be into fig...

Green Street Hooligans

[the team have just been asked to admit to any Communist connections, no matter how vague or distant, before they do the main broadcast against McCarthy - because he will us it as ammunition against them] Edward R. Murrow: Oh, if none of us had ever ...

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [Picard, Worf and Hawk are walking to the main deflector dish on the Enterprise hull. Picard notices Worf is breathing heavily] How are you doing, Mr. Worf? Lt. Commander Worf: Not well, sir. Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Try not ...

Star Trek: First Contact

Willard: [voice-over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I ...

Apocalypse Now

Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is ...

Love

Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain, Esté est plaisant et gentil, En tesmoing de May et d'Avril Qui l'acompaignent soir et main. Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs, De sa livrée de verdure Et de maintes autres couleurs, Par l'ordonnance de Nature. Ma...

Life

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

Candide

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

Cast Away: For these reasons

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Critique of Pure Reason

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Fearless

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

Firework

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Faith Within Reason

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

God-Shaped Hole