"I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world."

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John Dominic Crossan

#Discipline Quotes #World Quotes #Shock Quotes

“It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.”
“At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.”
“The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books.... America's greatness is not only recorded in books, but it is also dependent upon each and every citizen being able to utilize public libraries.”
“We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”
“Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.”

Source : Norman Lamm (2006). “Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought”, p.122, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
“When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.”

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“Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue Ceremonial angels - White Angels of music - White Nature angels - Apple green Angels of beauty and art - Yellow....”
“I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.”

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