"Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Dating Quotes #Long Quotes #Religion Quotes

“There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.”
“Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.”
“You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As we increase in our awareness and our integration of Self the process of integration grows and expands as we begin to incorporate the fullness of our nature, that of our spiritual nature or our Soul.”
“They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”
“We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind”

Source : Song: Maybe Not, Album: You Are Free, 2003
“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
“What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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