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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it.… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
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The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
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The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I think some of this just feels right. You're in the shower and you come up with a sentence and it's beautiful.… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple,… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same… — Horace Kallen Copy Share Image
Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe.… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
What people refer to as nerds or geeks, all they really are is people who are passionate about what they like, and… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
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