"Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols."

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Source : James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.44, Oxford University Press

James Davison Hunter

#Powerful Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes

“We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.”

Source : Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin
“The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.”
“In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.”
“It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.”
“I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'”

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