Adam Quotes - Page 15

• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fun, Believe

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• You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Two, White

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• We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Worship, Dangerous

  YouTube Channel "PHubb"/"Noam Chomsky - No Mas Muertes!", www.youtube.com. May 01, 2010.

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• Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sea, Paradise, Pearls

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• And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Paradise, Married

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

  Vir Das

  Thinking, Giving, Fans

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• Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

  Michael Koryta

  Doors, House, Shadow

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• There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, and the principles of his gospel. If, however, there are some things in the strata of the earth indicating there were men before Adam, they were not the ancestors of Adam.

  Marion G. Romney

  Jesus, Fall, Son

  "Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney".

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• Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religion, Gardening, Done

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• Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave life to the fallen. O abyss of humility! Adam and Eve lost themselves through gluttony, the Lord fasted and died for them, in order to give them life. They were disobedient, Christ fulfilled obedience.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' - the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam; the same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Children, Home

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.37, Image

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• Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam led a life that lacked direction. God, a woman, and the U.S. Navy gave it to him. FEARLESS is a love story...several love stories: a man for his woman, a warrior for his team, parents for kids, and soldiers for their country. There is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for his friends. Be warned—reading FEARLESS will change the way you see the world.

  Stu Weber

  Country, Team, Reading

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• O loving wisdom of our God
  when all was sin and shame,
  a second Adam to the fight
  and to the rescue came.

  John Henry Newman

  Fighting, Sin, Shame

  John Henry Newman (1868). “Verses on Various Occasions”, p.354

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• Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.

  Francois Quesnay

  Freedom, Government, Phrases

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• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

  John Milton

  Angel, Voice, Ears

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.67

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• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Needs, Fine Things

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Caring, Hands, Invisible Hand

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Garden, Eden

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.76, Chartwell

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• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake, Book, Character

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• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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• If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

  David Henry

  Real, Men, Today

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• One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

  Peter Jackson

  West, Saws, Firsts

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Successful

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fall, Animal, World

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