William Robertson Smith Quotes

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

William Robertson Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 8, 1846 - March 31, 1894

Topics

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So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Joel Edgerton

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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Aminatta Forna

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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

Donald Bren

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At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

Johnny Depp

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Whoever is managing you, you want to play your best and do your best for your country.

Dele Alli

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There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

Dean Ornish

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I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

Susan Orlean

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Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Timothy Simons

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What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

Richard Grasso

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Everybody got into the rugged outdoors business and into lifestyle merchandising and so forth and so on. And everybody was getting into catalogs and e-commerce and - you name it. It was just intense.

Leon Gorman

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I think, a lot of times, where people see they're insufficient or lacking in certain areas, they feel they're being judged even when they're not. And they condemn themselves more than anyone else does.

Kurt Warner

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