A Quote by Robert Darnton
Texts are always in flux.
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I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.
In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.
I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.
We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.
I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.
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