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“My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.”

Way Has Beens Done Turns Approach Claims Originals Despite Neglect Scholar Biblical Neglected Turn-on

Book:How to Read the Bible as Literature

Source: How to Read the Bible as Literature

“My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.”

People Knows Persons Has Beens Turns Advice Concepts I Realized Thick Giver Therapists Messed Up Know It All Thick Of It

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”

Children Has Beens Turns Courses Father Opportunity Losing Died Adversity Theme Only Child Father Died My Father Died

Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

World Trying Has Beens Self Reality Turns Fiction Class Team Car Science Fiction Spending Driving Engineers Google World Class Professional Life Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.”

Has Beens Turns Successful Clean Surface Remembered Businessman Twists Beneath The Surface Twists And Turns

Author:Ratan Tata

“I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record!”

Way Feels Has Beens Self Turns Successful Records Honest Pride Projects Albums Labels Being Honest

Author:Chely Wright

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.”

Has Beens Real Science Turns Views Planets Entertainment Point Of View Useless Estates Sequels Solar System

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.”

Has Beens Problem Turns Painting Structure Abstract Permission No Problem

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”

Long Has Beens Turns Class Economic Conservative Beer Solidarity Working Class Buddy

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”

Has Beens Turns Rocks Misery Vices Newspapers Burning Folly Warning Multitudes Beacons Admonition

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.”

Heart Has Beens Whole Running Turns Nations Peace Lines Violence Proud Europe Tasks Threat Secure Germany Division Harsh Restless Unnatural Unfinished

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.”

Has Beens Enough Turns Sports Lines Memories Wonderful Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Good Enough Rolling Thrill Treasured

Author:Curt Gowdy

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.”

Has Beens Dies Turns Courses Revolution Pages Mark Resumes

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

Humans Has Beens Ends Enough Problem Turns Wealth Human Beings Century Smart Average Solve 21st Century Life Span Average Life

Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon

“If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.”

Thinking Men World Children Has Beens Sometimes Done Light Turns Impossible Becoming Hero Bounds Uncommon Common Man

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.”

“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.”

Firsts Kind Has Beens Important Ideas Turns Belief Interest Concepts Genuine Invention Insanity Realms Assumption Reverse New Ideas Priesthood Vested Interests Old Ideas

Author:Arthur Miller

“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.”

People Thinking Has Beens Two Past Turns Miles Flying Planes Destination Pilots Suspended Turn Off Laptops Sped Minneapolis

Author:Jay Leno

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