I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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“They’d never precisely been friends, but they’d managed to stop the human race from being wiped out by a corporation’s self-induced sociopathy… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Who do you know, who could come out on a flying carpet? P. Diddy standing at the bottom, come out like a… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“A few minutes passed wherein the truck hummed, country music twanged on the radio, and I read the same paragraph in my… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be… — Rick Bright Copy Share Image
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Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
We had a 'Project Joey' scheme worked out in which I would take correspondence courses while acting in Hollywood. Then when I… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
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