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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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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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 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've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.
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I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
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Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.
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Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
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It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
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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.
