The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a haemorrhoid when it's on the outside… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere. — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
In the northern hemisphere, always dressing according to the season: bare arms in spring (however cold it is) and woolen jacket in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“hemisphere dominates for speech, writing, mathematical ability, logic and analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities,… — Open University Copy Share Image
When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
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