What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata… — Charles Correa Copy Share Image
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The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
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Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image