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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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This stage in the life of the buzz is truly fabulous. It’s not even a buzz anymore. It’s a roar. The world… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
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At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are… — Edward Leedskalnin Copy Share Image
The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
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The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
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Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
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