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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

I didn't say who the Sun was; I was careful not to even look in her direction. But I thought that it must've been obvious to anyone with eyes to see: there she was in the front row, blazing.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them: a paternity suit.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.

In short, it was the capacity for intimate relationships that predicted flourishing in all aspects of these men's lives, as can be seen in Table 2.3.

The canonical books thus share in a unity of redemptive history that is intrinsic within them rather than superimposed upon them from without.53

This missionary aspect is probably the most important single aspect of the story [of Pentecost] in Luke's view."109

Biblical theology must be done from a starting point that is biblical-historical in orientation. Only this approach can deal adequately with the reality of God and his inbreaking into history. This is the methodology employed by the present writer in the study of New Testament theology.

The whole history of New Testament thought is to be understood as the invasion of God's world into the realm of history to secure humanity's redemption.

This "gospel" was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor.

No more could belief in Jesus' resurrection have caused the church to attribute atoning value to his death. The source of a theology of Jesus' death must go back to Jesus himself.

Theology and history are intellectual pursuits; faith is commitment of the whole person.

The Kingdom of God involves two great moments: fulfillment within history, and consummation at the end of history. It is precisely this background which provides the setting for the parables of the Kingdom.

The kerygma of Paul is essentially the same as that of Jesus, namely, that in the person and mission of Jesus God has visited human beings to bring them the messianic salvation.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.