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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d21aa66 | We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense - a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good. | facts government judgments science | Mark Dunn | |
| 6c485a7 | I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs--piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and chaos of our marvelous language. Words upon words, piled high, toppling over, thoughts popping, correspondence and conversation overflowing. | language | Mark Dunn | |
| 5354206 | His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes! | Mark Dunn | ||
| 930c3d9 | diversity in no way implies chaos or error. | Peter Enns | ||
| bb67fdb | The deeper problem here is the unspoken need for our thinking about God to be right in order to have a joyful, freeing, healing, and meaningful faith. The problem is trusting our beliefs rather than trusting God. | Peter Enns | ||
| 2748ab4 | Doubt is what being cornered by our thinking looks like. Doubt happens when needing to be certain has run its course. | Peter Enns | ||
| bd10553 | I feel it is part of the mystery of faith that things normally do not line up entirely, and so when they don't, it is not a signal to me that the journey is at an end but that I am still on it. As I reflect on my own experience and that of many others far wiser than I, God seems willing to help that process along. | Peter Enns | ||
| 56073b3 | Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it--and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure. | Peter Enns | ||
| cc2b195 | Trust like this is an affront to reason, the control our egos crave. Which is precisely the point. Trust does not work because we have captured God in our minds. It works regardless of the fact that, at the end of the day, we finally learn that we can't. | Peter Enns | ||
| 5c350ab | It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis," wrote Peter Enns, "to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the days of creation can be lined up with modern science, or whether the flood was local or universal. The question that Genesis is prepared to answer is whether Yahweh, the God of Israel, is worthy of worship."2" | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| 90d2ea9 | Two great critiques of modernity by biblical scholars are Walter Brueggemann's Texts Under Negotiation and Walter Wink's The Bible in Human Transformation. | Peter Enns | ||
| d487c45 | Seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: "The eternal silence of the infinite spaces terrifies me." | Peter Enns | ||
| 0f9a2ba | Who we are and when and where we exist affect how we imagine God. | Peter Enns | ||
| b50a78a | We knew each other's histories and secrets, hopes and fears and dreams. When you need to get good and drunk, that's the kind of person you want keeping pace with you. "Okay," | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c7170b8 | Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. | Ancestors | ||
| dd3e83d | 'Tis happy for him that his father was born before him. | Ancestors | ||
| 7d08257 | He seems to be a man sprung from himself. | Ancestors | ||
| 0d45a54 | Think of it! An opportunity to remake the world! An opportunity to create a steam-driven utopia! To re-educate humanity to despise violence. And what do they do, those incompetents? They opt for the pretty clothes and the empire-mad European imperialist culture of the 19th century. Damn those fools. Those geeks, arrogant, myopic, ivory tower board gamers. Damn them. | Richard Ellis Preston Jr. | ||
| 271e9a5 | jump | Richard Preston | ||
| 1e93740 | North Carolina and Virginia Boundary. 1 deg On the 27th of February, 1728, William Byrd, Will Dandridge, and Richard Fitzwilliam, as commissioners from Virginia, met Edward Moseley, C. Gale, Will Little and J. Lovick, as commissioners from North Carolina, at Corotuck Inlet, and began the survey on the 27th day of March, and continued it till the weather got "warm enough to give life and vigor to the rattlesnakes" in the beginning of April, .. | John Preston Arthur | ||
| 4b6c6be | to stand for "periphery." It is hard to ignore the ubiquity of pi in nature. Pi is obvious in the disks of the moon and the sun. The double helix of DNA revolves around pi. Pi hides in the rainbow and sits in the pupil of the eye, and when a raindrop falls into water, pi emerges in the spreading rings. Pi can be found in waves and spectra of all kinds, and therefore pi occurs in colors and music, in earthquakes, in surf. Pi is everywhere in.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 0fe1389 | an expansion of pi to only forty-seven decimal places would be sufficiently precise to inscribe a circle around the visible universe that doesn't deviate from perfect circularity by more than the distance across a single proton. A billion decimals of pi go so far beyond that kind of precision, into such a lunacy of exactitude, that physicists will never need to use the quantity in any experiment--at least, not for any physics we know of tod.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 6a8bbf0 | It could be said that without sticky tape there would be no such thing as biocontainment | Richard Preston | ||
| 95493bd | When I rode along the Kinshasa Highway as a boy, it was a dusty, unpaved thread that wandered through the Rift Valley toward Lake Victoria, carrying not much traffic. It was a gravel road engraved with washboard bumps and broken by occasional pitlike ruts that could crack the frame of a Land Rover. As you drove along it, you would see in the distance a plume of dust growing larger, coming toward you: an automobile. You would move to the sho.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 36e42e4 | Viruses are an essential part of nature. If all the viruses on the planet were to disappear, a global catastrophe would ensue, and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse in a spectacular crash. | Richard Preston | ||
| b7e6693 | In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species | Richard Preston | ||
| 8fdc2d5 | Ebola is distantly related to measles, mumps, and rabies. It is also related to certain pneumonia viruses: to the parainfluenza virus, which causes colds in children, and to the respiratory syncytial virus, which can cause fatal pneumonia in a person who has AIDS. | Richard Preston | ||
| 3f68689 | A zoologist at Humboldt State, Michael A. Camann, climbed in the Atlas Grove and took samples of the fern mats and discovered that they are also sprinkled with tiny aquatic creatures, crustaceans of an unnamed species of copepod. Copepods are oval-shaped, shrimp-like creatures, barely visible to the naked eye, that are sometimes called the insects of the ocean. | Richard Preston | ||
| 8aac5af | As for the trees themselves, water that flows into a giant redwood through its roots takes two weeks or longer to reach the top of the tree, moving slowly upward through the tree's sapwood. | Richard Preston | ||
| 693b812 | They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. | Richard Preston | ||
| f3ea790 | Rank is a farce: if people Fools will beA Scavenger and King's the same to me. | Ancestors | ||
| a9377e5 | He stands for fame on his forefather's feet,By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet! | Ancestors | ||
| 6ef4192 | They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,Produce their debt, instead of their discharge. | Ancestors | ||
| 511d1af | Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! | Anchorite | ||
| 35a774b | I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 89ed0d7 | want to go out with me? ??? chill, im not gay ???? r u shur you're not my type G wats yr typ? people who can spell | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7ca349e | The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f694167 | clinic, | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e2d6b64 | Dad: "And that tree is sick. See how the branches on the left don't have any buds? I should call someone to take a look at it. Don't want it crashing into your room during a storm." Thanks, Dad. Like I'm not already having a hard time sleeping. Worry #64 : flying tree limbs.(...)" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f4a5eaa | Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f97127e | That fellow was like all of us: descended from good people who were stolen from their families and country, sailed over the sea, and forced into slavery. 'We don't let them steal our dignity,' that preacher said. Richard, his name was. He said they cannot steal our honor, our strength, or our love." "True words," I said. "Do you know what he said about this America?" Henry asked. I shook my head. "Remember, lads?" Henry asked his mates. "Jo.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| be55cfe | She's packing at least five grand worth of orthodontia, but has great shoes. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b96c2e3 | You never think about the mall being closed. It's always supposed to be there, like milk in the refrigerator or God. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 741390b | Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them. They need us to be brave enough to give them great books so they can learn how to grow up into the men and women we want them to be. | Laurie Halse Anderson |