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If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself...… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
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The biggest influence in my life has been by husband, who is also my partner in the business. We started our companies… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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There's just a lot of really, really great male artists right now, and it's good, too. And there's so many different influences… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions.… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence… — Burton Watson Copy Share Image
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
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It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is… — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
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There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
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