Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
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The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
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Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history.… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
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An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels,… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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