Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
Ernest Renan
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham Lincoln
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
Laura Prepon
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Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
Xi Jinping
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Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
Ma Jun
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
Walter Russell Mead
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It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
Florence Nightingale
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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Laurence Sterne
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
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People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
James Veitch
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I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.
Little Simz
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Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.
Andrew Mango
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Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
Joe Bastianich
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
Boris Pasternak
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It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
Ernest Renan
