Jakobinismus Quotes & Sayings

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. — James Lipton

The mark of an intelligent and educated man is one who does not really accept the idea of "work". That is to say; he does not accept the process of doing chores every day, that aren't in the least bit interesting to him, just in order to go on living. — Alan W. Watts

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews. — Bill Hicks

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ... — Margaret Deland

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care. — Sanjay Dutt

My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. — Katha Pollitt

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well. — Madeleine Stowe

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. — Robert Benchley

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. — Eliza Lynn Linton

The earliest known copies of Jewish Scriptures in Hebrew dated to the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, and among them the differences were mostly small and insignificant. Taking them as witnesses to the earlier texts from which they were copied, it seemed logical to conclude that these many homogeneous texts must have derived from a common original via a highly accurate scribal tradition. But evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls seems to contradict this conclusion. Among the hundreds of biblical manuscripts discovered there, many of which are more than a thousand years older than anything scholars had ever seen before, we find not uniformity but diversity, including many significant differences. The logical assumption now is that Jewish Scriptures became more uniform and free of variants over time, as scribes gradually established a more or less standard edition. — Timothy Beal