The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul’s vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required n...
One hundred twenty-nine women with documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked about abuse history. Seventeen years following the initial report of the abuse, 80 of the women recalled the victimization. One in...
People who profess to have no faith, do not actually have no faith. They simply do not have faith as defined by the rest of the people. Many people who do not have faith as defined by the rest— do have a faith in many other good things— honesty, ...
But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-bu...
Jason Bourne: Who's your source? What's his name? What's your source's name? Simon Ross: Look, what's going on? Why are these people after me? Jason Bourne: Because you found something. You talked to someone, inside Treadstone, someone who was there ...
Peachy Carnehan: I've come back. Give me a drink, Brother Kipling. Don't you know me? Rudyard Kipling: No. I don't know you. Who are you? What can I do for you? Peachy Carnehan: I told you; give me a drink. It was all settled right here in this offic...
Charles Bushman: There was a young man by the name of John Leggit Hunter who ran a filling station business, a good filling station business and he's one of these young men we all come across in life, I'm sure you've come across 'em, who did not dese...
[last lines] James T. Kirk: There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are... Wh...
Suppose a top politician, entertainment figure, or sports star said it didn't really matter who shot Lincoln or why, who attacked Pearl Harbor, the Alamo or the USS Liberty. Imagine the derision. Imagine the ridicule. Imagine the loss in credibility ...
If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing...
A good man is one who rejoices in the well-being of others.
A mule who goes in search of a fine set of antlers, will come back with his ears cut off:
Marriage is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside want to come in, and those already in want to be out.
A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things.
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.
If you go only once round the room, you are wiser than he who sits still.
On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself.
I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
