And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
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Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The Ojibways have great respect for the Bear. According to their legends, in the distant past the Bear had a human form… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
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We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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