Hans Jonas Quotes
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I love women more than anything.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
