I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must recognise that nations can and do sin corporately. God loves nations, and I join those who believe that God has… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved.… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Humans have real superpowers and when I see my dad, and saw my dad, work with communities and help people change viewpoints,… — Guillermo E. Brown Copy Share Image
My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
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I did this movie right after it about the life of Chet Baker. It's called Born to Be Blue. In that situation,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Don't expect me to be perfect. Despite all my lives, I'm still only human. I can't deliver perfection, and I'll only disappoint… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
If humanity today succeeds in combining the new scientific capacities with a strong ethical dimension, it will certainly be able to promote… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
“Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion… — Douglas Petrie Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
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