The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the… — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“When the first atomic bomb exploded in New Mexico, the desert sand turned to fused green glass. This fact, according to the… — Maxwell Igan Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything… — stephen r. lawhead Copy Share Image
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister… — John Updike Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honor Yourself is more than just food for the soul-it is true healing for the heart. Patricia Spadaro provides an honest approach… — Ann Louise Gittleman Copy Share Image
“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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