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I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer… — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His… — James Keller Copy Share Image
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs… — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we… — Michael Hesemann Copy Share Image
does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil… — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's saying. And he's just saying out there - I mean, forget about… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
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Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense,… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in… — Raghad Hussein Copy Share Image
Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image