Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere;… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
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I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the… — Janet Guthrie Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true… — William McFee Copy Share Image
The Pleiadians reminded me of what my role was here, to be on this planet and to act as an ambassador to… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
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Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
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I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source… — Humberto Maturana Copy Share Image
Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No!… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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