John Shelby Spong Quotes
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
John Shelby Spong
Quotes to Explore
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
Frances Wright
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
Aaron Ruell
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. Truett Cathy
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
T. C. Boyle
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
Hank Azaria
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
Salman Rushdie
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What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?
Barbara Crossette
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Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.
Marlee Matlin
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I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
John Shelby Spong
