"The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Jesus Quotes #Law Quotes #Names Quotes

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.
“Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.”
“I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!”
“A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.”
“Whenever you can, count.”
“She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.”
“It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.”

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