“The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.” MenWritingMeanHas BeensReasonMightJesusLeftNationsRaceStepsMankindDangerousSonOfficeIsraelConvincedLocalsPriestsSuperstitionsFoundingChurch And StateAbrahamSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianJacobUs Founding FathersReformersFounding Fathers ReligionFounding Fathers ReligiousReligion GodIsaacFounding Fathers Anti ReligionChristianity From Founding FathersChristian FatherRemorseless Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.” ThinkingGivingMeanCharacterActorsBehindsAttentionCreatingStandingOvercomingTerrorConvincedPhrasesMaskStanding There Author:Stephen Dillane
“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.” LoveMeanMadeStillsProblemAgeHairRootsSkinsManagementShoesConvincedIntensityInchesAnger Management Book:True Source: True
“I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.” IfsMeanPerfectDemocracyKingsHeroShotsKillingAvailableConvincedRanRevolutionaryVotingLutherNot PerfectGreat Hero Author:Maynard Jackson
“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.” IfsMenShouldMeanIdeasYoungHumanityGoalCareersOffersDignityPerfectionConvincedProfessionExcellentYoung ManGreat MenScholarSageScopeImaginativeConsonants Author:Karl Marx
“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.” MeanLongHas BeensNaturalRemainsConvincedObscureSelectionExclusiveNatural SelectionModification Book:The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species