Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been… — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met. — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image