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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

“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.”

Source: The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things

“I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.”

“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.”

Body Results Effort Special Elements Research Discovery Claims Originals Genuine Tendencies Cognitive

Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.”

Way Results Successful Failing Atheism Tests Scientist Claims Originals Dare Positive Atheism Arguing Experiments Fantastic Repeats Flaws Criticize Competence Replication

Author:Martin Gardner

“The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.”

Men Doe Facts Problem Suffering Sin Claims Originals Doctrine Adam Original Sin

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?”

Ifs World Persons Responsibility Buddhism Advantage Claims Originals Victim West Forgotten Agency Helpless Taking Responsibility Pampered

Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”

Kind May Doe Character Lying Common Quality Objects Taste Unique Claims Originals Consumers Exploits Deceptive Availability Elitist Kitsch Inaccessible Rarity Forgery

Author:Matei Calinescu

“And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.”

Mean Doe Jesus Sex Sin Birth Claims Originals Absence Conception Mary Virgins Tabloids Original Sin Immaculate Virgin Birth Immaculate Conception

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.”

“After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.”

People Ifs Believe Wells Ideas Values Secret Study Clear Security Periods Solutions Program Claims Originals Terrorist Target Pakistan If You Believe Cia Drones Original Ideas Stanford Nyu

Author:Robert Greenwald

“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”

Ifs Men Heart Eye Running Desire Found Loses Enemy Five Failing Color Taste Ears Claims Harmony Originals Hearing Ruins Cages Flavor Perfume Discernment Pigeons True Life Found Happiness

Author:Zhuangzi

“I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?”

Made Artist Secret Claims Originals Enthusiasm Making Money Sequels

Author:Don Bluth