There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
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I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
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English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
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The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have… — Tomochichi Copy Share Image
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
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If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
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