Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should… — William James Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
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The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
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Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
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![“[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5db/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_ancestor_opetaia-foa-i-brought-in-the-melody-and_2061405.png)
![“Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a7/bill-gates-137_america_contrary-to-piketty-s-rentier-hypothesis_3094696.jpg)
![“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of…” quote by Will Cuppy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c1/will-cuppy-7569_acres_footnote-pliny-the-elder-described-a-wha_84284.jpg)
![“Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which…” quote by David Abram](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/023/david-abram-15943_ancestor_entranced-by-the-denotative-power-of-wor_1198850.jpg)
