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It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not,… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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“The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity,… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
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You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
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“Doing favors,” Leyers said. “They help wondrously over the course of a lifetime. When you have done men favors, when you look… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in… — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
