Merrill McPeak (1936) United States Air Force general
How to Secure Israel: Demilitarized land for peace is the key to a settlement (April 2008)
Sermon 1
Context: So that I may be perfectly clear... Before the death of Christ during the period between the calling of Abraham and the fullness of time, the people of Israel were the vehicle of Divine Revelation. The Spirit of God raised up and enlightened men who by the law, the Mosaic Thorah, regulated their religious and civil life, by the Psalms provided them with a prayer book for family devotion and a hymn-book... It is only with this Israel of the early biblical period that I shall deal in my Advent sermons. After the death of Christ Israel was dismissed from the service of Revelation.
Merrill McPeak (1936) United States Air Force general
How to Secure Israel: Demilitarized land for peace is the key to a settlement (April 2008)
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
On Israel, America and AIPAC (2007)
Anne Murray (1945) Canadian singer
On her early career in the 1960s, as quoted in "Anne Murray says farewell with All of Me", CBC Arts, CBC.ca, 29 October 2009 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/anne-murray-says-farewell-with-all-of-me-1.806879
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. <br class="br"> A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Richard Miles (historian) (1969) British historian and archaeologist
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
Song Kang-ho (1967) South Korean actor
As quoted in "Interview: Song Kang-ho, Parasite" in Cinevue (5 February 2020) https://cine-vue.com/2020/02/interview-song-kang-ho-parasite.html
Helmut Koester (1926–2016) biblical scholar
Introduction to the New Testament (1982), Preface
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
"Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence" - interview by Jeffrey Elliot (1980)
Context: My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian. I suppose an anarchist would say, paraphrasing what Marx said about agnostics being "frightened atheists," that libertarians are simply frightened anarchists. Having just stated the case for the opposition, I will go along and agree with them: yes, I am frightened. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson's time, or even smaller. But I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would act exactly like Idi Amin. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government.
“Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam.”
Nawal El-Saadawi (1931) Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist
The Hidden Face of Eve (1980)
Context: Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.