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Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are.… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
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I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever… — Gareth Bale Copy Share Image
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A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
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I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
