"I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that."

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Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Frank Moore Cross

#Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes #Elements Quotes

“The drives were nature's first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world's obstacles to them.”
“My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.”

Source : Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”
“It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.”
“The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.”
“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.”
“You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.”
“I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”

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