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“Simon hated her for that. Perhaps it was automatic. Her appearance alone made her different from him, and human beings had always… — Louise Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually.… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Play that cosmic tape backward, and everything converges down to a point about 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the Big Bang. The… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
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You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“One hand on the iron and the other on the nape of my neck, he rocked against me over and over, and… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
“The world is a very different place from what it was two thousand years ago, much of it for the better, but… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God,… — Patience Prence Copy Share Image
“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I am kind of a sucker for democracy, so I do think that what kinds of citizens we have in our societies… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“My conscience holds with the majority, which makes me know it does not speak false. “Against Henry’s kingdom, I have all the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, thirty thousand years ago, there lived a little boy in the Rhine valley. He was a tiny part… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here,… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
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