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religious style looks
Rob Sheffield Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
religious thinking opposites
Richard Dawkins 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.
religious giving-up children
Richard Dawkins 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
Richard Dawkins 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
Richard Whately A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
religious hero character
Russell Crowe 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.
religious integrity patriotic
Roger Babson Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
religious errors grace
Tryon Edwards 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.
lying moving hunting
Richard Page As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.
lying hate people
Rebecca West There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
lying book reading
Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
lying book reflection
Umberto Eco Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying passion insane
Umberto Eco The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
lying practice dames
Raymond Chandler Dames lie about anything - just for practice.
lying political hours
Willie Brown In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
lying white introducing
William S. Paley White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
lying book men
William S. Burroughs When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
justice politics world
Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
justice suffering fairness
William Blackstone It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
justice social-justice 21st-century
Van Jones I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
justice community suffering
Van Jones Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
justice trying demand
Ursula K. Le Guin We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
justice joy insecurity
Sandra Day O'Connor Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
justice decision clerks
Sandra Day O'Connor Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
justice abortion fetus
Saint Basil She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason..
justice kingdoms gang
Saint Augustine What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.