David Gelernter Quotes
We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
Quotes to Explore
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.
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Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
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It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
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It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
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We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
