Not exact matches
A God who could make
good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and
invented hell - mouths mercy, and
invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied
by seventy times seven, and
invented hell; who mouths morals to other
people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
The Court, if it had wished to rely upon Jefferson to determine the true and original intent of the First Amendment, could have served themselves and the American
people well by referring to Jefferson's warning to Judge William Johnson regarding the de-ter-min-ation of the original intent of a statute or a con - st - itu - tion On every question of con - struc - tion, carry ourselves back to the time when the Con - st - itu - tion was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or
invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»
Maybe unbelievers display similar hope
by thinking if they just trust in the power of love and do their
best to be there in
good times and bad, they will make the
person they love more happy and less likely to need the emotional crutch of an
invented «god.»
More specifically, as is
well known to many
people who love the «fettuccine all» Alfredo», this famous dish in the world was
invented by Alfredo Di Lelio concerned about the lack of appetite of his wife Ines (my grandmother), who was pregnant with my father Armando (born February 26, 1908).
More specifically, as is
well known to many
people who love the «fettuccine all» Alfredo», this famous dish in the world was
invented by Alfredo Di Lelio concerned about the lack of appetite of his wife Ines, who was pregnant with my father Armando (born February 26, 1908).
And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including
people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who
invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated
by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as
well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking
people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.
Farming was such a
good idea when it was
invented 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent that it was quickly adopted
by several different groups of
people.
I'm always struck
by the fact that the image of the scientist is as a lone
person wearing a lab jacket in the lab
by themselves for hours, whereas my sense is that maybe the single most important thing for a scientist, aside from being able to think of
good questions, is figuring out
good people to work with and enjoying the process of
inventing ideas together with other
people.
Most
people in the West live stressful lives, and yoga — and
by extension yoga therapy — is perhaps the
best overall stress reduction system ever
invented.
In a recent survey conducted
by Shell, when young
people were asked to list their top three motivations for getting a job in the science or engineering sector,
by far the most popular reason was «to make
people's lives
better» (53 %) while «
inventing technologies that help communities» came second (33 %).
But I was confident that the
people at DC, who
invented the modern minivan and have stayed on top in sales
by making it
better year after year, would find ways to improve on the 2000 model as
well.
Pit Bull Myths There are numerous myths circulating about pit bulls, some
invented by people who are afraid of the breed and others disseminated
by well - meaning pit bull advocates.
«Magic with numbers» is always accomplished
by either
inventing your data or massaging what data you have, unreliable at
best given the time spans involved the equipment available, the precision, repeatable accuracy and calibration of the equipment used to collect the data along with the number of
people doing the measurements, all of which are accomplished somewhat differently.
Now a 30 - year program founded
by Suzy Bassani, it is a tribute to those in the Miami Valley who have kept it going for so long and to the funders as
well,
people like the late Virginia Kettering whose father - in - law
invented the self - starter for the automobile and whose Kettering Families Foundation has provided support for so many artistic endeavors through the years in Dayton.