Havelock Ellis Quotes
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
Havelock Ellis
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Rockwell
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
Pamela Anderson
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
Randy Travis
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
Jack Dee
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
Randall Terry
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Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
Sam Harris
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Daniel Hannan
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Peter Agre
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In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
Fulton Oursler
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We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.
Cliff Richard
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That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
Dave Haywood
Lady Antebellum
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I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
John Shelby Spong
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
Jim Butcher
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People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.
John Ortberg
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Personally, I don't believe insects had to be on board Noah's ark. You see, I don't believe they're classified in the Bible as having the 'breath of life' as vertebrates are.
Ken Ham
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If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
Adrian Rogers
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Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want to accept and throw everything else out. My view is that everyone already picks and chooses what they want to accept in the Bible...I have a young friend who whose evangelical parents were upset because she wanted to get a tattoo, since the Bible, after all, condemns tattoos. In the same book, Leviticus, the Bible also condemns wearing clothing made of two different kinds of fabric and eating pork...Why insist on the biblical teaching about tattoos but not about dress shirts, pork chops, and stoning?
Bart Ehrman
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My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
Dolores Huerta
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Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.
Alexandra Petri
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From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
Havelock Ellis
