Bart Ehrman Quotes
Pagans never had to affirm anything. As odd as this seems, pagans were not required to believe truths about the gods. Paganism was instead about performing the proper, traditional cultic acts.Bart Ehrman
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
Barack Obama -
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Make fair agreements and stick to them.
Confucius -
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
William O. Douglas -
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp -
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
Marcel Proust -
The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
Jef I. Richards -
He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.
Tone Loc -
Pagans never had to affirm anything. As odd as this seems, pagans were not required to believe truths about the gods. Paganism was instead about performing the proper, traditional cultic acts.
Bart Ehrman