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“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.”

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”

Long Stories Would Be Father Lines Cases Tricks Peculiar Storyteller Long Life Obsessive Yiddish Long Story

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.”

Father Cases Grandfather Daddy Papa

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?”

Should Children Care Mother Father Cases Taken Separation

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.”

Believe Mother Father Names Lost I Believe Prayer Numbers Lord Knowledge Cases Pieces Ten Essentials Lays Addresses Equipment Telephones Alphabet Keystones

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Two States Might Father Religious Interesting Cases Imagine Son Ideology Dictatorship Secular Korea North Korea Reminding Trinity

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.”

People Past Fall Father Sin Forget Cases Generations Son Forgiving Refuse Innocent Unfortunate Forgive And Forget Sins Of The Father Past Wrongs

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

Ifs Want Said Actors Father Parent Cases Study Nice Childhood Fine Really Nice Welding

Author:Robin Williams