Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Kanematsu Sugiura…took down lab books and showed me that in fact Laetrile is dramatically effective in stopping the spread of cancer. The… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
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Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
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[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even… — Hudson Gurney Copy Share Image
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
Instead of talking about the fact that Hillary Clinton violated about 40 federal laws we are talking about this [that this president's… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
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