Elliott Sober Quotes
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature; I mean that God affects what happens in nature in ways that are additional to the ones that deism recognizes.)
Quotes to Explore
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.
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Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
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Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.
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«And the European one?»
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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.
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We exhaust ourselves worrying about our health. We're obsessed with it. We worry about our health and when we worry about our health, guess what? We're not fucking healthy! We're so worried about our health that we are now the fattest group of fucks on the planet Earth! 'Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!'
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
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I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature; I mean that God affects what happens in nature in ways that are additional to the ones that deism recognizes.)
