The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The question "Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage?" is one you must consistently ask yourself… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“ My Name Once when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
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“There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
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Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
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Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took… — Carl Ludwig Copy Share Image
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