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Scholar Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
Stanley Fish
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Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.
Stanley Fish
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
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To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.
Stephen F. Cohen
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
Origen
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I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.
Diana L. Eck
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Angels, inasmuch as they come from the Throne Room of the Thrice-holy God, usher us into the presence of God once removed and such encounters with God are more powerful and overwhelming than ordinary moments with God.
Scot McKnight
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Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value completeness of speech is an academic value relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.
Stanley Fish
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How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?
Marcus Borg
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In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.
Kevin Gutzman
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The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
Scot McKnight
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What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation.
Robert Jastrow
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What a glut of books! Who can read them?
Robert Burton
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I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.
Hamza Yusuf
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You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.
Origen
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There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.
Diana L. Eck
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People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.
Frank Partnoy
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The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.
Wendy Doniger
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Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this.
Origen
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I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
Hamza Yusuf
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Love one another strenuously because it's hard.
Scot McKnight
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God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
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