While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in Washington DC. This would have helped the city enormously, as he was the detective who cracked the '93 blasts case. But the commissioner declined to let his subordinate take up the offer from Rand, because of his fear that it was CIA-affiliated. That culture of suspicion needs to change; India needs to learn how other democracies fight terror.
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill!
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor. ' That's what I did.
I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well.
The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.
I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: “You don't have to. ”, “Aren't you busy?”, “Just give up, you have another way. ”; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
I think that ultimately we will attain much more depth of understanding of Scripture when we are able to study it in the company of a great number of scholars who all begin with the conviction that the Bible is completely true and absolutely authoritative.
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.