#eli

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. ↗

— Austin Farrer

#friend #like #more #obedience #religion

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#bad situation #believe #certain #certain things #get

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#advertisement #fast #powerful #reputation #traveling

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#bring #class #colleagues #ethnic #family

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. ↗

— Ludwig Erhard

#believes #biggest #cake #compromise #dividing

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#children #dad #dads #engaged #full

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#cannot #establish #illusion #most #pernicious