As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Everything Bill Clinton has done is fair game. He's a former president. I just don't think that is the most effective way… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Along with former President Bill Clinton, we have Sam Nunn to thank for the sorry debacle of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' — David Mixner Copy Share Image
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The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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