Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain… — Daphne Sheldrick Copy Share Image
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You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham 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
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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
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
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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
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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![“The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy]…” quote by William John Macquorn Rankine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/617/william-john-macquorn-rankine_ancient_the-words-theory-and-practice-are-of-gre_2795808.jpg)
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