It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.


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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in ou...
N. T. WRIGHT
Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an aft...
N. T. WRIGHT
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
N. T. WRIGHT
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters...
N. T. WRIGHT
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...
N. T. WRIGHT
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' ...
N. T. WRIGHT
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of cour...
N. T. WRIGHT
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was gl...
N. T. WRIGHT
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want...
N. T. WRIGHT
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theoc...
N. T. WRIGHT
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is ...
N. T. WRIGHT
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvena...
N. ROBERT HAMMER
We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana...
N. ROBERT HAMMER
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is...
N. ROBERT HAMMER
One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
N. ROBERT HAMMER
The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. ROBERT HAMMER
I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON