There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of… — E. J. Banfield Copy Share Image
The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I've visited the future and I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The ancient universities was not as based on how many credit hours you're taking and whether you've completed your credit hours. The… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
