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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
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Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family… — Robert Spector Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
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