"Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim,"

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Source : "Fox News must apologize to Reza Aslan". www.washingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

Reza Aslan

#Biblical Quotes #Two Quotes #Greek Quotes

“You measure a player from the head up.”
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.10, Vintage
“Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.”
“Every time I'm in the studio, I always think of my professor in undergrad. He was like, "There are so many artists in the world. If you're going to be an artist, make sure you have something to say. Don't just be an artist and put out bullshit. Have something to say." I guess that would be my philosophy and something I think about all the time. Every day when I'm in the studio I hear him and I see him. I remember him saying it in class. So that's something that I always want to make sure I have: I'm saying something with the work.”
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Source : Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.314, Macmillan
“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”
“I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.”
“I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.”

Source : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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