"If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Character Quotes #Law Quotes #Needs Quotes

“You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to- face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory-both how it works and what it remembers In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.”

Source : "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.
“religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.”
“If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake.”
“Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.”
“I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today.”

Source : Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com
“Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.”
“I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.”

Source : "Tisha Campbell & Duane Martin: Through the Fire". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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