Martin Rees Quotes
Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.
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Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.
