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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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 gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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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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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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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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I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
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The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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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.)
