Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
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You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
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I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
No highly evolved being would ever seek to control the thoughts of anyone, or cause anyone to think or act involuntarily. More… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of the young talants are becoming fashionable. And anything that's fashionable can become unfashionable. So one has to watch that.… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
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Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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