Elaine Pagels Quotes
People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
