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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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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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've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?
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If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
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Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
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Dancing is the body made poetic.
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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.
