It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the… — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
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Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
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A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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