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Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is… — Pepe Reina Copy Share Image
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it… — Giacomo Balla Copy Share Image
Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established,… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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