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If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

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His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. ↗

— Arthur Baer

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There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest. ↗

— Arthur Baer

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#economist #english #ever #gentleman #his

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. ↗

— David Bailey

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I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see. ↗

— Jessie Ware

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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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