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| 26b0931 | If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled--have you no shame in that?" --EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| be4370b | Mnogouvazhaema gospozho Stonozhke - kazal toi, - vashata pokhodka, kakto znaete, se radva na goliama populiarnost sred p'lziashchite tvari. - Tia mi e po nasledstvo - otv'rnala Tomi skromno. - Bashcha mi beshe izvesten b'rzokhodets, a maika mi r'kovodeshe balet ot komari. | James Krüss | ||
| 47384ad | No guts, no glory. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 49ed86d | Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 9bd6520 | But what is most desperately needed is not so much a better appreciation of our neighbor's religion as a broader, more complete understanding of religion itself. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 86c8572 | More than a thousand years before Christ, Zarathustra preached the existence of a heaven and a hell, the idea of a bodily resurrection, the promise of a universal savior who would one day be miraculously born to a young maiden, and the expectation of a final cosmic battle that would take place at the end of time between the angelic forces of good and the demonic forces of evil. | Reza Aslan | ||
| d6e3976 | So commonplace was crucifixion in the Roman Empire that Cicero referred to it as "that plague." Among the citizenry, the word "cross" (crux) became a popular and particularly vulgar taunt, akin to "go hang yourself." | Reza Aslan | ||
| f957485 | These abiding words of the Beatitudes are, more than anything else, a promise of impending deliverance from subservience and foreign rule. They predict a radically new world order wherein the meek inherit the earth, the sick are healed, the weak become strong, the hungry are fed, and the poor are made rich. In the Kingdom of God, wealth will be redistributed and debts canceled. "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" | Reza Aslan | ||
| 70f8d45 | Minds are not changed merely through acquiring data or information (if that were the case it would take no effort to convince Americans that Obama is, in fact, a Christian). Rather, it is solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties. | Reza Aslan | ||
| dff8eed | The gospels present Pilate as a righteous yet weak-willed man so overcome with doubt about putting Jesus of Nazareth to death that he does everything in his power to save his life, finally washing his hands of the entire episode when the Jews demand his blood. That is pure fiction. What Pilate was best known for was his extreme depravity, his total disregard for Jewish law and tradition, and his barely concealed aversion to the Jewish natio.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| f8867f1 | There is, however, one thing about which all the prophecies seem to agree: the messiah is a human being, not divine. Belief in a divine messiah would have been anathema to everything Judaism represents, which is why, without exception, every text in the Hebrew Bible dealing with the messiah presents him as performing his messianic functions on earth, not in heaven.) | Reza Aslan | ||
| b71a3f7 | So then, give back to Caesar what is his, and give back to God what belongs to God. That is the zealot argument in its simplest, most concise form. And it seems to be enough for the authorities in Jerusalem to immediately label Jesus as lestes. A bandit. A zealot. | Reza Aslan | ||
| e9c24e9 | All religions are inextricably bound to the social, spiritual, and cultural milieux from which they arose and in which they developed. It is not prophets who create religions. Prophets are, above all, reformers who redefine and reinterpret the existing beliefs and practices of their communities, providing fresh sets of symbols and metaphors with which succeeding generations can describe the nature of reality. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 41f49fe | This creator god was called Allah, which is not a proper name but a contraction of the word al-ilah, meaning simply "the god." | Reza Aslan | ||
| 2075049 | I mention the fact here because it shows how great events are decided by trifles. Scholars, of course, won't have it so. Policies, they say, and the subtly laid schemes of statesmen, are what influence the destinies of nations; the opinions of intellectuals, the writings of philosophers, settle the fate of mankind. Well, they may do their share, but in my experience the course of history is as often settled by someone's having a belly-ache,.. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 0015e82 | Most of us do not think of ourselves as criminals, but possibly there are things in our daily lives which we regard as our "inheritance" which will move future generations to critical disgust." | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 5aeea37 | For God's sake, even her parents no longer read Dostoyevsky--haven't they suffered enough, they would say; after thirty years of communism, didn't they DESERVE Danielle Steele? | Irina Reyn | ||
| 9d9a923 | Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime,someday,somehow, you'll find them. | dreams someday | Danielle Steel | |
| fd4e055 | Women are the only "oppressed" group to share the same parents as the "oppressor"; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the "oppressor"; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the "oppressor"; the only "oppressed" group whose "unpaid labor" enables them to buy most of the fifty billion dollars' worth of cosmetics sold each year; the only "oppressed" group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clot.. | Warren Farrell | ||
| 9a72746 | Zaista su imali srecu da se sretnu. Nasli su ono za cime su tragali i borili se da to zadrze, sve dok nisu stigli u sigurnu luku i konacno umakli svim olujama. Svi djelici su bili spojeni u cjelinu i upleteni u novu tkaninu njihovih zivota | Danielle Steel | ||
| 75a3e7b | Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country. | inspirational-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter salvador-dali travel vacation vacation-quotes wayne-dyer | Laurie Nadel | |
| d9dd9db | Find a way to learn something from every disappointment. | disappointment inspirational-quotes laurie-nadel laurie-nadel-quotes learning-from-mistakes learning-quotes quote-about-life quote-of-the-day quote-of-the-week quotes-twitter wayne-dyer | Laurie Nadel | |
| 3f0c6fe | Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Sla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo isce, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Josijina, in prepricana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. Ce so se za njo zaprla se ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prislo naproti, je jecalo kot veter. END. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| f2ea569 | To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| f7e3f20 | I suspect there are lots of women who want to become prostitutes. Some see themselves as valued commodities and figure they ought to sell while the price is high. Others feel that sex has no intrinsic meaning in and of itself but allows individuals to feel the reality of their own bodies. A few women despise their existence and the insignificance of their meager lives and want to affirm themselves by controlling sex much as a man would. The.. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 1a4c3dc | Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure of kindness from another person. Don't you think it's a sad story? | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| d3d0b4e | Someone speak to me. Call out to me and take me out. Please, please, I'm begging you, say something kind to me. Tell me I'm pretty, tell me I'm sweet. Invite me out for coffee, or more... Tell me that you want to spend the day with me and me alone. | loneliness love romance | Natsuo Kirino | |
| 81bbf5d | I realized that the last thing I wanted to do was go home. A weird feeling--like on the one hand I wanted to go back to that other world, but at the same time didn't care if my connections to it were cut forever. It wasn't a feeling of being free or anything. I just didn't want to go back. I wanted to float somewhere in between. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| a232c6f | You see, natural beauty creates such excitement that the existence of the weight is negated. And once it is negated, the heavier it is to bear. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 2b0494e | All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| cce53e4 | Mystery] delivered one of the many great aphorisms that that he used to turn defeat into triumph. "Where there's a problem, there's an opportunity." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 6da46d6 | Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw." [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. "I feel strange and empty, like after a shit." | Neil Strauss | ||
| 42fedee | Envy, Dona Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the person of whom you're jealous. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 3804542 | John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat. Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I .. | irony love misunderstanding | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
| 78eacb0 | Justice is a process, and change takes time, but I believe we ought to dream big dreams and make big statements as we pursue those dreams. Amos didn't tell the people that God wants justice to trickle through their society. The New Living Translation uses the phrase "mighty flood of justice" (Amos 5:24) to describe what God wants to see. One thing we learned in Mendenhall is that once flood waters start rushing through a place, there's no t.. | John M. Perkins | ||
| 03016c1 | It isn't about changing the mechanics of economics. It is about changing the ideas, the dogmas that have driven economics for centuries: debt and fear, insufficiency, divide and conquer. | John Perkins | ||
| 55fff88 | Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace. | christianity faith missions | John M. Perkins | |
| f5b2cfe | God has always wanted the vulnerable in society to be cared for. He never intended for them to languish in poverty, abuse, slavery, homelessness, or other types of devastation. When we care for individuals who are trapped in these ways, when we show them love and help them move toward freedom and wholeness, we participate in bringing a little part of God's Kingdom back into alignment with His greater plan. We do justice and God smiles. | John M. Perkins | ||
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| 327059f | EHMs provide favors. These take the form of loans to develop infrastructure--electric generating plants, highways, ports, airports, or industrial parks. A condition of such loans is that engineering and construction companies from our own country must build all these projects. In essence, most of the money never leaves the United States; it is simply transferred from banking offices in Washington to engineering offices in New York, Houston,.. | John Perkins | ||
| 1cbe278 | In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize. | John Perkins | ||
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| b845e6a | It costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in...and if he [the sun] is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 4ce77cf | We are a race of tit-men... | Henry David Thoreau |