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I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film. Lars Trier
religious style looks
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. Rob Sheffield
religious thinking opposites
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination. Richard Dawkins
religious giving-up children
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by the way, I suspect will prepare a child to give up religion. If you are taught comparative religion, you are more likely to realise that there are other religions than the one you have been brought up in. And if you are if you are taught to read the bible, I can think of almost nothing more calculated to turn you off religion.
religious atheist atheism
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
religious strong political
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. Richard Whately
religious hero character
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood. Russell Crowe
religious integrity patriotic
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. Roger Babson
religious errors grace
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. Tryon Edwards
war generations vietnam
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Richard Holbrooke
war japan suffering
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
war thinking president
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
war habit increase
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
war wow good-old-days
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. Rick Riordan
war mean bff
When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?
war evil together
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
war tea annabeth
I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously
war moving agency
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
buddhism people suffering
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. Nhat Hanh
buddhism tradition dalai
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. Pico Iyer
buddhism views somewhere-else
When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. Shunryu Suzuki
buddhism empowering getting-what-you-want
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want. Pema Chodron
buddhism thinking people
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
buddhism squares suffering
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.
buddhism preoccupation very-powerful
Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations. Pankaj Mishra
buddhism needs way
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.
buddhism pockets followers
The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism. Camille Paglia