You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration.… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
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The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
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