Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“Together, we are a tribe of eyes that look upward, Even as we stand on uncertain ground. The earth beneath us moves,… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“The earth will probably sink and drown; but at least it will be the result of generally acknowledged political and economic ideas,… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image