Bart Ehrman Quotes
There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Ἔσω βλέπε· μηδενὸς πράγματος μήτε ἡ ἰδία ποιότης μήτε ἡ ἀξία παρατρεχέτω σε.
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
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In the eight years since his father’s death, Patrick’s youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called ‘mature’.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.
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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.
