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may be right. But actually Da Vinci left a big clue that the painting was supposed to be androgynous. Has anyone here ever heard of an Egyptian god named Amon?” “Hell yes!” the big guy said. “God of masculine fertility!” Langdon was
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“It is a subject that is taboo unless there is some extraordinary social crisis—such as war—involving the mobilization of all the national resources of the common life to meet it. There is a conspiracy of silence about hatred, its function and its meaning.”
― Jesus and the Disinherited
― Jesus and the Disinherited
“Amazingly, life went on largely undisturbed as Chesbrough’s team raised the city’s buildings. One British visitor observed a 750-ton hotel being lifted, and described the surreal experience in a letter: “The people were in [the hotel] all the time coming and going, eating and sleeping—the whole business of the hotel proceeding without interruption”
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
“What we rarely do is recognize the way glass supports this entire network: we take pictures through glass lenses, store and manipulate them on circuit boards made of fiberglass, transmit them around the world via glass cables, and enjoy them on screens made of glass. It’s silicon dioxide all the way down the chain.”
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
“What we hope for includes the wise human leadership and initiative which will, like that of Joseph in Egypt, bring about fresh and healing policies and actions”
― God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath
― God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath
“This impulse at the heart of Christianity is the human will to share with others what one has found meaningful to oneself elevated to the height of a moral imperative. But there is a lurking danger in this very emphasis. It is exceedingly difficult to hold oneself free from a certain contempt for those whose predicament makes moral appeal for defense and succor. It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other.”
― Jesus and the Disinherited
― Jesus and the Disinherited
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