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“Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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“four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.” — John Zogby Copy Share Image
“This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Most locals knew who Della Lee was. She waitressed at a greasy spoon called Eat and Run, which was tucked far enough… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
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“A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders… — Deborah Grace Staley Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being. And measures of… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
“one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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“Well, I don’t. Not absolutely. But adopting "making money’’ as the goal of a manufacturing organization looks like a pretty good assumption.… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
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“This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
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“At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that… — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
“These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after… — Tony Jones Copy Share Image
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“Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on… — Lindsey A. Holcomb Copy Share Image
“the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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