Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Indeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however,… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to settle for little. We settle… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty well,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking… — Bud Collins Copy Share Image
“As I reached the highest step, I turned. Spread along the platform was a mass of bobbing black hair like a long… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Kinship is the work of coincidence, sweetheart. The only thing it truly engenders is proximity. And sometimes not even that, as plenty… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African… — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
“There was another matter which caused much disturbance in our mind: the viciousness of sibling rivalry. We knew that kingship knows no… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames… — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image