Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Quotes
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
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Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
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There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.
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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
