Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
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You know, very often, if you look at the kinds of communications that they're getting in an ISIS recruiting video, the videos… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
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To those men who are dating outside marriage, do you really love her as you claim, or are you just attracted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image