Sentences with phrase «thing about history»

LOS ANGELES — The beautiful thing about history is that it often repeats itself.

It wasn't necessarily easy to go back that far; as Downey put it: «That's the dumb thing about history, if you're talking about something that has its origins more than 12 minutes ago, you're already coloring it with your ego and your story.»

The great thing about history, sexual or otherwise, is that it no longer exists.

The thing about history is that it is history.

Also very talented at most things about history, geography, and technology

He will show you the main temples and explain to you many things about the history the construction, the discoveries and theories about this Sacred City.

Just as the bank will ask you security questions about your history, ask a questionable client things about the history of the property that a fraudster likely doesn't know.

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Given his employment history, he may have learned a thing or two about tact over the years.

The chatbot will answer queries for all things Louis Vuitton: searching the brand's online catalog, pulling up catwalk shows and history about the brand, and giving tips for product maintenance.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

History may repeat itself in financial markets, but if there's one thing unpredictable about Wall Street, it's the people in it.

The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote about a government program being the closest thing to eternal life we will see on earth.

«This does not seem like a thing that will go well, given Facebook's history of leaking sensitive data about users to each other,» tweeted Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization.

«One of the things that encourages me about our country,» he said, «is that for over half [our history] we wasted half our talent.

The good thing about going through the worst financial crisis in history and surviving is that the next go around won't be as bad.

«We have started Aspect to focus at looking at things in a different way and in a more extended way,» said Gouw, about the wide - ranging plan to stick with entrepreneurs over the course of a startup's long - term history.

You want to talk a little bit about how some of these placements are different than investing in traditional stocks and some things that people that aren't as familiar with the history might want to know about?

We can prove certain things about the past, for example, old climates, fossil dating, genetic history via genomes, etc..

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

«If it were only grace, making all earthly things cease to matter, God would still owe us an answer to the question about justice — the crucial question that we ask of history and of God.

And one of the most fascinating things about coming up with the idea is that you may now sit having accomplished it — five full continents, 100,000 miles, and 10,000 years in history.

However, I was definitely confused and also uninformed about the implications or logical conclusions of Calvinism, such as the fact that if Calvinism is true, God is the author of sin, since He, according to Calvin, predetermined every single little thing that has ever happened in history, including the sins of every man, including Adam!

But the genealogies also can teach us things about God, about ourselves, and about what God is doing in history.

Religious nuts have been saying the same thing about how terrible things are at the moment throughout history.

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It is about far greater things than mere human history.

Thus we might say all sorts of things about the reformation, but only to be finally silent before the mystery of God, who, in the end, is alone responsible and alone judges this history.

Those Christians who have come before us may have been wrong about some things, he notes, but «every key figure in the history of the church has left his, her or its mark on subsequent readings of scripture.»

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

Maybe you should spend more time studying things like american history instead of reading the bible since you are clueless about such things.

The essence of that cosmology is that through it science has achieved for the first time in its history a contradiction - free discourse about the totality of consistently interacting things, or the universe.

Obama keeps saying things about Muslim history that is not true.

The reason, though offered as much by faith as by sight, is that in Jesus Christ, as the apostle put it to the Colossians, «all things hold together,» even the well - publicized actions of well - known figures and the day - to - day activities of ordinary people carried on with never a thought about the scrutiny of history.

I read a lot of Calvinist literature in English and literature classes and in history class the closest thing I saw to anti-Christian sentiment was a comment about how Islamic scholars in West Africa criticized Christian teachers for doing exactly what the Islamic scholars had been doing (the hypocrisy was clearly pointed out).

Cotter has a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, so you'd think he'd know a thing or two — basic facts about world religions, history, that sort of thing.

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

There is no need to romanticize this chapter of history and make all the Puritans libertarians, «but the remarkable thing about the English settlements in America is that there, in the brief period between 1607 and 1787 these traditionally antagonistic groups of people learned to dwell together side by side in relative peace.

Think about, you are saying the same thing that every hate group in history has said, what makes you think that you call to blow up what you dislike any different than the Klan, Black Panthers, Taliaban or any other groups call?

The most striking thing about the Christian's confession of Christ is the thoroughgoing way in which it links God with flesh, earth, time, process, history.

People (Jews, blacks) are screaming about racism, etc. yet they constantly bringing those differences with thing like that: Jews and baseball, Black history month, ridiculous.

If there's one thing I've learned over this past decade of parenting, it's that questions about religion demand my attention, and all the more so if they inadvertently reference a history of discrimination.

You wrote about all the mean Christians you know, and how we have done and said so many hateful and hurtful things in history, and even in our own day.

If they knew anything about religious history they would know these things.

Scholar who has spent years actively studying history and the Bible and actually knows what he is talking about: «Hey you guys have a couple of misconceptions about this thing you love so much, wouldn't you like to know the actual truth?»

I could never bring myself to believe that in all of Jewish history, so many rabbis who had been so smart about so many other things, could be so stupid theologically.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.

What about the earthquakes and the famines, and the unmentionable things done by men to each other «in the name of God» from the dawn of history?

Before there was much speculation on the «nature» of the person and long before any dogmatic statements about that nature were attempted, the members of the community knew that they stood at the great climacteric moment of all history, that in and through the things which had happened among them and of which they were witnesses, God had visited and redeemed his people.

But we will in faith continue to shape new ways of speaking about the things of God informed by events that spill out of our own histories and self - consciousness.