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cringed. What made him cringe was not fear but empathy, a basic human quality that allows one to identify with another's feelings.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it. I'm a mystic, but only in my body, My soul is simple and doesn't think.

If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

No hay como tener un libro clave para uno firmado por el autor que lo escribió.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

We cannot understand the modern age without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity.

The kind of sociopolitical structure that Protestantism engenders—based on free inquiry, participatory politics, and limited government—tends to favor market economics.

The real novelty of our own time is not the prominence of the religious Right but the silence of the religious Left.

my fear, my joy more horrible than my fear, my obscene words, my words which are keys locking me into a mirror, with you, but ever alone.

Each word is you begging to utter it. Each word is the long invitation to memory.

Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.

The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war.

I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.

unless I'm miraculously rescued by an idiot who thinks beauty is a weakness.

It's more powerful than a regular dragon," said Master Kung.