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“Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was recited in the context of the central sanctuary. That tradition was displaced by the Feast of Enthronement beginning in the Solomonic era.”
Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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“Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.”
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“You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.”
Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.49
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“I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very grateful - but the fame part isn't so fun.”
Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
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“I write to be the characters that I am not.”
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“A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.”
Source : "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.
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“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1999). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
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“Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.”