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Asharism. School of theology, created by al-Ashari, that is skeptical of reason and free will.
“Yet in Germany no less than the United States, the political meaning of genocide has never been widely understood. Both populations have, for the most part, denounced genocide as a racist act, but neither has recognized that it was also a productive one, whose outcome is the nation-states in which they live.”
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
― Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
“Most people around the globe today are better off than our ancestors because citizens and workers in early industrial societies organized, challenged elite-dominated choices about technology and work conditions, and forced ways of sharing the gains from technical improvements more equitably.”
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
― Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
“Many of the laws are also quoted, expanded, and revised in the New Testament, for example in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7) and in the “household codes” of some letters, such as Ephesians 5:22–6:9, Colossians 3:18–4:1, and 1 Peter 2:18–3:7. The household codes in particular also have parallels in Greek and Roman literature.”
― The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know®
― The Bible: What Everyone Needs to Know®
“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“It is thus inevitable that the New Man of rock ’n’ roll was incarnated in the mid-seventies in the figure of Bruce Springsteen, a singer-songwriter whose principal merit was that of showing us the entire DNA map of American music. There is not one paradigm of modern music that he did not bend to comply with his personal narrative urgency: rockabilly, soul, rhythm and blues, punk, folk, country, pop, jazz . . . Springsteen does not change popular music, he incessantly reworks it, keeping its roots alive.”
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
― Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics 1972-2017
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