Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
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The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
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These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
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What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution -… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
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