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Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
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Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's… — Theodore Austin-Sparks Copy Share Image
My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it… — Yoon Sang-hyun Copy Share Image
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image