Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
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We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people.
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
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Maybe I'm a supernatural retard.
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Miss Me Baby is one I wrote out of vengeance, ... It was one of those situations where I thought I hope that whoever she dates next just can't get it right and she just think of me.
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All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.
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That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.
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While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.
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True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
