Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
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I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
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Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most… — Seymour S. Kety Copy Share Image
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Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
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