I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
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Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
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But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
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Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all.… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
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In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
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By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the creationists that I've encountered diligently deny that our Earth's climate is being altered by people. This point of view and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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