"There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible."

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Source : Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.11, Zondervan

Leland Ryken

#Literature Quotes #Growing Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.”
“I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.”
“There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.”
“I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”
“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2006.
“I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.”

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