When I won gold medals in both the 200m and 400m events at the 1958 Asian Games, the then chief of army… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
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Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
A dream is the meeting of minds; an event in our waking consciousness is the coming together of sensible substances. Hence our… — Lie Yukou Copy Share Image
I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are… — Emily Doskow Copy Share Image
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
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I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
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London 'Harry Potter' premieres are very special events: There is this sense of love and ownership and pride, and it's just palpable.… — Michael Goldenberg Copy Share Image
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We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
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As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
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