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.
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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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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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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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Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
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I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.
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With Marathi cinema, content is king. It has always been driven by content. I am lucky that I don't have to leave home to seek a job elsewhere. The industry is here at home.
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The Christian community, therefore, is that community that freely becomes oppressed, because they know that Jesus himself has defined humanity's liberation in the context of what happens to the little ones. Christians join the cause of the oppressed in the fight for justice not because of some philosophical principle of "the Good" or because of a religious feeling of sympathy for people in prison. Sympathy does not change the structures of injustice. The authentic identity of Christians with the poor is found in the claim which the Jesus-encounter lays upon their own life-style, a claim that connects the word "Christian" with the liberation of the poor. Christians fight not for humanity in general but for themselves and out of their love for concrete human beings.
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Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.
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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.
