{"quotes":[{"text":"Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: 'She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.","author":"Caitlin Keiper","tags":["dialogue","discipleship","openness"],"id":1043,"author_id":"Caitlin+Keiper"},{"text":"Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.","author":"Eli Pariser","tags":["citizenship","democracy","dialogue","polarization"],"id":1742,"author_id":"Eli+Pariser"},{"text":"During the Reformation and the Enlightenment, nature came to be understood in a mechanistic sense as bereft of any capacity for divine grace or revelation. We’ll explore this suggestion further in the next chapter. In order to appreciate the significance of this, we have to recognize that nature is a cultural construct. When we speak of nature, we are using language to describe the world around us with all its species, life-forms and landscapes. But nature is a concept whose meaning changes with different perceptions and ways of looking at the world. This means that supernatural is also a concept which has different meanings, for it refers to phenomena or experiences which do not seem to fit within our particular expectations of what nature is or should be. The term supernatural therefore depends on a certain concept of what natural is. For many people who are less determinately materialist than Dawkins, there may be an indeterminate region which is neither strictly natural nor strictly supernatural. A red rose may be natural, but when I am given one by the person I love, I experience a range of emotions, memories and associations which endow that rose with symbolic significance and make it, in some sense, supernatural. It transcends its natural biological functions to communicate something in the realms of beauty, hope and love.","author":"Tina Beattie","tags":["catholic-feminist-thought","catholic-thought","dialogue","language","linguistic-theory-and-nature","natural-and-supernatural-theory","nature","supernatural","tina-beattie"],"id":2208,"author_id":"Tina+Beattie"},{"text":"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["attitude","brilliance-and-attitude","brilliance","debate","dialogue","genius","genius","intelligence","intelligence","learning","learning","mind","mind","mind","smart","smart","speech","speech","student","talking-too-much"],"id":4171,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.","author":"Eric Jerome Dickey","tags":["dialogue","food-for-thought","medianoche-to-gideon","real"],"id":6422,"author_id":"Eric+Jerome+Dickey"},{"text":"Luthicer hummed. 'You're either brave or very foolish.' 'What's the difference?' (Eric).","author":"Shannon A. Thompson","tags":["brave","bravery","dialogue","fool","foolishness","paranormal-romance","young-adult"],"id":10218,"author_id":"Shannon+A.+Thompson"},{"text":"In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.","author":"Sara Baume","tags":["a-line-made-by-walking","christmas","dialogue","humor","inequity","presents","sara-baume"],"id":20973,"author_id":"Sara+Baume"},{"text":"Madam: Are you lucky, Debora?Debora: What do you mean?Madam: Well, you don't look that happy today...Debora: Is it that clear?","author":"Debora van der Velde","tags":["conversation","debora","dialogue","happy","jacco","lucky","welle"],"id":22157,"author_id":"Debora+van+der+Velde"},{"text":"A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.","author":"Solomon ibn Gabirol","tags":["argument","criticism","dialogue"],"id":22359,"author_id":"Solomon+ibn+Gabirol"},{"text":"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.","author":"Yann Martel","tags":["controversy","dialogue","faith","god","ideas","life-of-pi","religion","story"],"id":30750,"author_id":"Yann+Martel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":135,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}