…the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms,… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Seven Cities was an ancient civilization, steeped in the power of antiquity, where Ascendants once walked on every trader track, every footpath,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient,… — Normandi Ellis Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
![“Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.” quote by Norman Macbeth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c4c/norman-macbeth-47158_aim_darwinism-has-failed-in-practice-the-who_744390.jpg)
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