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• The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

  David Icke

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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• We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Way

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• Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

  Fred Durst

  Sound, Phrases, Machines

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• There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

  Junot Diaz

  Couple, Writing, Character

  "A long-term relationship". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Car, Connections

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• Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Dirty, Men, Rely

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• Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

  Toni Morrison

  Gun, World, Problem

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• If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

  Robert Pattinson

  Running, War, People

  "Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Wild Rid". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 4, 2009.

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• Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Sacrifice, Law

  "Facing Death, Christopher Hitchens Affirms Atheism" by Ethan Cole, www.christianpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man who is literally our Father in heaven. He was born in mortality in the literal and full sense as the Son of God. He is the Son of his father in the same sense that all morals are the sons and daughters of their fathers.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Jesus, Real, Father

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• The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religion, Atheism, Divinity

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• If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

  Ken Ham

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, Liberty

  James Madison's letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831.

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• As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Religion, Adherence

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Doors, Knowing

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.55, Random House

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• What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.

  John Green

  Memories, Reality, Play

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• We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

  John Green

  Jesus, Hipster, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Entwined, Existence

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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• If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  Benjamin L. Corey

  Meaningful, Peace, Biblical

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• If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

  Peter Morgan

  Distance, Events, Stories

  "The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back" by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

  Prince Charles

  Often Is, Agriculture, Environmental

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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