Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
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That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch… — Wim Crouwel Copy Share Image
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We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
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The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the… — Todd Park Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
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I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
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