The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies,… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition.… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital… — Terence C. Kern Copy Share Image
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging… — Mike Seabrook Copy Share Image
For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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