The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls.… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything,… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Sadly, there are some fine Christian people who believe that the only way to advance the gospel is to pray for revival… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three… — James Rebhorn Copy Share Image
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
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The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image