Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
It's our own throat that we are cutting in the end along with everyone else's. We need to be exercising precisely the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
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