Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation.… — Richard Di Natale Copy Share Image
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Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . .… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
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This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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