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Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself,… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances… — Elton John Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
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There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image