Bart Ehrman Quotes
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
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I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.
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Inflation is a prequel to the conventional Big Bang theory. ...It does provide a theory of the propulsion that drove the universe into this humungous episode of expansion which we call the Big Bang.
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I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possible sentences inflicted upon them. They may defend themselves but always from purely political considerations and never from a personal point of view.
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I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.
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Working on Ethereum could be similar to working at a Google: lower risk with broad impact right away. Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential.
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It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.
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I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
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A candle burned on the table, a candle burned ... he whispered to himself - the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars
