Roman Payne  - Quotes

 All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. 

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Abigail Adams  - Quotes

 Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.  

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Jim Morrison  - Quotes

 The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun 

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Steven Pinker  - Quotes

 Of course genes can 

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  - Quotes

 Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came to being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago. By the same token the earth itself is generally supposed to be about four and a half thousand million years old.



These dates are incorrect.



Medieval Jewish scholars put the date of the Creation at 3760BC. Greek Orthodox theologians put Creation as far back as 5508BC.



These suggestions are also incorrect.



Archbishop James Usher (1580-1656) published Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti in 1654, which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004BC. One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004BC, at exactly 9.00 a.m., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh.



This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour.



The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologists haven't seen yet.
 

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Audrey Niffenegger  - Quotes

 You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. 

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Hosni Mubarak  - Quotes

 An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. 

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Jim Morrison  - Quotes

 People are strange . . . 

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David Sedaris  - Quotes

 For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them. 

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Kamila Shamsie  - Quotes

 Those Genes Could Have Been Mine 

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Wendell Berry  - Quotes

 [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.

(pg. 44,
 

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John Calvin  - Quotes

 For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.

(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)
 

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Christopher Moore  - Quotes

 I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.  

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