#whereas

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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.


Karen Armstrong


#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.


Carol Moseley Braun


#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.


Anton Chekhov


#difference #doctors #just #kill #lawyers

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.


Art Garfunkel


#beautiful #beautiful things #feel #i #i love

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.


Bob Geldof


#family structure #fight #fighting #find #had

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.


Susan George


#back #capital #come #going #hundreds

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.


K. D. Lang


#cord #cover #create #expand #hard

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.


James Laughlin


#especially #get #gets #good #great

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#occupies #official #position #say #someone

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.


Ernst Mach


#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily