Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
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I have faith in the jury system.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
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I have faith in my imperfections!
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
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A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
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Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.
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Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
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But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
