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Slavery was our nation's original sin.
William Barr /
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
Elvis Costello / Singer-Songwriter
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I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Susan Sarandon / Actress
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There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
Louis Dudek / Poet
Done
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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin / Writer
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Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
Barack Obama / 44Th U.s. President
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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
Edward Abbey / Author
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Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
Blase J. Cupich /
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine / Philosopher
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Objects
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Sign
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
Ann Brashares / Film Writer
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Alfred Rosenberg / Author
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Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.
Chrystia Freeland /
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Sargent Shriver / American Statesman
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There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
Desmond Harrington / Actor
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From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.
Jason Aaron / Writer
Fury
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'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
Jason Aaron / Writer
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Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
William Bratton / Law Enforcement Officer
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran Lebowitz / Author
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Born
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People
Sin
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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr / Theologian
Men
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Conceiving
Incapable
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame / Author
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Invasion
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An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
Thomas Campbell / Poet
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Maids
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Writing
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury / Author
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Putting together a list of heroes for 'Original Sin' was a long process, just like figuring out the villains. Along the way, some were taken out, and a few more were added.
Jason Aaron / Writer
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
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Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
Jock Sturges / Photographer
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes / Actress
Birthday
Courage
Smile
Born
Earth
Growing Up
Maturity
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Walter Kaufmann / Philosopher
Men
Adam
Claims
Doctrine
Doe
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Suffering
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Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
Charles Hodge / Author
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Karen Armstrong / Author
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Doing Good
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Trinity
Time Good Great
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The original sin of Brexit - the lies, contradictions, half-truths and omissions on which it was built - have come back to haunt the Thatcherite Tories who started all this with Nigel Farage and Ukip.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis /
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Overall, I'm happy how 'Original Sin' has come together. It's an amalgam of all I've done at Marvel, mixing the gritty, violent 'Punisher Max' stuff with the zany, light-hearted 'Wolverine & The X-Men' work.
Jason Aaron / Writer
Light Hearted
Max
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Hans Jonas / Philosopher
Ecology
Exploits
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Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.
John Shelby Spong / Author
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Creation
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Humanity
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I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.
Frankie Boyle / Comedian
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Always Believe Me
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'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.
Jason Aaron / Writer
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Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.
Conor Lamb /
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis / Actress
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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges / Photographer
Artist
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I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
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Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
David Novak /
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I did not give Angie a French kiss. It was something simple and lovely. She was about to go off to Mexico to finish filming 'Original Sin' with Antonio Banderas. I congratulated her on the Oscar win and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. It was snapped and became a big thing.
James Haven / Actor
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Lovely
Mexico
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An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it's far from the whole story.
Jason Aaron / Writer
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During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism.
William Godwin / Journalist
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Impartial
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