“Ancient documents described the symbol as an ambigram—ambi meaning “both”—signifying it was legible both ways. And although ambigrams were common in symbology—… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon! The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. … What makes me different from the ‘nazis’ are basically three… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We should treat each other better. Why in the hell would you still have racism? This ancient, moronic hatred? Why does our… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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