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You write with ease to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading.

SIR BENJAMIN. Perhaps, Sir, you are not a Doctor. SIR OLIVER. Truly Sir I am to thank you for my degree If I am.

As I have endeavoured to reproduce the works of Sheridan as he wrote them, I may be told that he was a bad hand at punctuating and very bad at spelling. . . . But Sheridan's shortcomings as a speller have been exaggerated." Lest "Sheridan's shortcomings" either in spelling or in punctuation should obscure the text, I have, in this edition, inserted in brackets some explanatory suggestions.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

notice these inconsistencies: Christian and anti-Christian polemicists

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

Raymond also distrusted all other living people because they had not warned his father of his mother.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Stereotyping is dangerous, but generalizing is a fair guide at the national level.

Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship; by means of his curses, God mercifully brings

Of this blest man, let this just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven."9

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

The Means to Prosperity articles had momentous impact – not only because the pleasure felt in understanding subtle arguments predisposes people towards accepting their conclusions. The articles sparked international discussions which inaugurated the oncoming Keynesian Revolution.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

In our system, rights are almost always procedural (for example, to a fair process) rather than substantive (for example, to food, housing, or education).

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi).

The chief pagan god in the region that was to become Israel was El. El was male, patriarchal, a ruler.

Richard Elliott Friedman

Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918)