How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
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The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e47/noam-chomsky-42_accepted_luckily-for-barack-obama-the-russians-ca_2388051.jpg)
