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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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“All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“-No man-, proclaimed Donne, -is an island-, and he was wrong. if we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...to you, differences are quite unimportant; to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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“The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“The nature of the Hebrew Bible and traditional Judaism, if we insist upon using Latin terms, is orthoprax, which literally means correct… — Jeffrey Radon Copy Share Image
The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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“[T]he old stories of human relationships with animals can't be discounted. They are not primitive; they are primal. They reflect insights that… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
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What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“When you are depressed you are not at peace. You are not at peace because you are not using your creative potential.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a… — Harvey Spencer Lewis Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
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If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Follow Your Passion” Is Terrible Advice “I think it misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“But how did you become devoted to the King who had done all this?’ Sudarshana asks. When did this change of feeling… — Ray Monk Copy Share Image
“You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image