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		Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I love working the legislative process. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tea Obreht 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vicente Fox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L. Lionel Kendrick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paige VanZant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Jonas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				AJ McLean 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Paulsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Isaac Hanson 
			 
			
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		Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Wang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Travolta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				S. M. Stirling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This whole world is one great City, and one is the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends-first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each. (123). 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Epictetus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabriel Iglesias 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neil MacGregor