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• Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.

  Desmond Tutu

  Responsibility, Garden, Eden

  "We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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• Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

  Beryl Markham

  Weed, Essence, Roots

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran.

  Harold Bloom

  Jesus, Believe, Character

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• Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Men, Nintendo, Broke

  Song: Juicy

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• The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Encounters, Fundamentals

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Two, Stories, Way

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• In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Long, Speak, Flood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.'  We know from the first letter of John that 'God is Love.'  Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love.  This isn't hard to see.  Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.

  Jason Evert

  Book, Men, Design

  Jason Evert (2014). “Theology of His Body / Theology of Her Body (2 Books, 1 Volume): Discovering the Beauty and Mystery of Femininity / Discovering the Strength and Mission of Masculinity”, p.47, Ascension Press

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• I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

  Phil Collins

  Shadow, Want, Kind

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• Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Successful, Kissing, Musician

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Drug, Important, Collaboration

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

  Michael Horton

  Bible, Christian, Expectations

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• If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.

  Charles Hodge

  Errors, Evil, Forever

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.627

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• It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Hatred, Important

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Temptation, Might

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• As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Girl, Fall, Angel

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

  Jefferson Davis

  People, Religion, Gentleman

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• The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Names, Suits, Facts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

  Austin O'Malley

  Spring, Book, April

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• If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.

  Wallace Pratt

  Book, Simple, Ideas

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• In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

  Goldwin Smith

  Youth, Strive, Geology

  Goldwin Smith (1904). “Lines of Religious Inquiry: An Address Delivered to the Unitarian Club of Toronto”

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