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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
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There`s a certain attitude toward being presidential that is now going away and I think the other thing we`re seeing is really… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People who want a different Pakistan have to find a way to go back into their own past and revive the vision… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390 and the… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
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I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
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The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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I look back at a couple of games we lost that we shouldn't have lost that could have made a difference. But… — Kerry Collins Copy Share Image
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Right now, where do we stand? Well right at the Russian border, both sides have been taking provocative actions, both sides are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
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Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image