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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!
Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.
I tend to change research direction every few years or so.
A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.
In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old, historical bonds is a reasonable, well-founded approach.
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
I've played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression. If that's what you're working on when you're doing a scene, then your focus is on the wrong thing.
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
I go to L.A. three or four times a year. It's great for research.
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.
It seems everyone who knows about Celtic knows they are historical, and if you play here, expect diehard fans.
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to create something unique and memorable.
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.
Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.
The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.
Way too many voters are apathetic and don't do their research and are on the sidelines.
The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
Film Club is a necessity in any big university, as it provides a platform and a forum where you can exchange ideas, critique and appreciate historical, classics and contemporary films.
It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite history.
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.
