Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“I was nearing a familiar point where I’ve descended through every level of madness and despair, and a certain calm takes over.… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So now Nathan had a new partner, who, by all accounts, was a dour old drudge with nary a daughter to his… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“But all of a sudden the scene changed; it was the memory, no longer of old impressions but of an old desire,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise, like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A… — lucas Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when New York City was affordable, people who felt they didn’t fit into the mainstream could take a chance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“He would sit singing, his cheeks turning red above his whiskers; but his voice always came out deep and steady, like the… — Ruth Moore Copy Share Image
Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
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We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it… That does not fit my… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
“It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna pointed out that "the profundity of [hallucinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?" Caine shook his head. "No, I have not." "Strangely enough,"… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“How ironic that when they’d been married, she’d never thought of growing old with him. Yet now, years after the annulment, she… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
I've been a signed artist, but it's only been a full year-and-a-half. I'm still kind of new to money and this kind… — Polo G Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Learn?” he said then. Was that bitterness in his voice? “How? I am as I was made: unchanging. Long ago, men dreamed… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
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We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“What has Kantorek written to you?” Müller asks him. He laughs. “We are the Iron Youth.” We all three smile bitterly, Kropp… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
... because he was going to marry her. “It is customary to ask,” she now said as she turned to watch him… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Now, President Obama paid off his own student loans not too long ago. He remembers what it is like. He said making… — Kal Penn Copy Share Image