Carol P. Christ Quotes
The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
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My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
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The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
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Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.
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The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.
