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As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#certain #could #days #god #himself

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#circumstance #constitution #directed #jealous #noble

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms--a hundred trillion or more. They are bacteria, mostly, but also viruses and fungi (including a variety of yeasts), and they come at us from all directions: other people, food, furniture, clothing, cars, buildings, trees, pets, even the air we breathe. They congregate in our digestive systems and our mouths, fill the space between our teeth, cover our skin, and line our throats. We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; those cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds--the same as our brain. Together, they are referred to as our microbiome--and they play such a crucial role in our lives that scientists like [Martin J.] Blaser have begun to reconsider what it means to be human. ↗

— Michael Specter

#fungi #microbes #microbiome #microorganisms #viruses

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#anything #done #extraordinary #films #i

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it. ↗

— David Wells

#career #day #got #had #i

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks. ↗

— David Wells

#enhance #game #guys #had #make

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#fallen #me #more #must #race

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#common-sense #concerned #dealt #feeling #had

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#arms #lynching #nothing #now #without

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#deepest #dreams #experiences #expression #form