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“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made… — Sandra Sealy Copy Share Image
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
“It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past,… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Henri said our names were fitting because we were destined to be together in our old age, like our great-great-aunts. Two gray… — Jessica Taylor Copy Share Image
“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies....you are far… — Sohrab Ahmari Copy Share Image
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“He stared and talked at the girl's red hair and amused face for what seemed to be a few minutes; and then,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Long ago, while journeying in the east, the man had a poem sent to his friends at home: Though we are as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“Then Loki flew as a falcon about the keep, peering into each window as he went. In the farthest room, through a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember the white knight.’ Reynie let out his breath. A long, slow release. He didn’t have to think very hard to know… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“THOU RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY SOVEREIGN, In whose hand is my life and whose are all my ways, Keep me from fluttering about… — Arthur Bennett Copy Share Image
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Long ago, God spoke through the prophet Jeremiah to rebuke His people for chasing after idols—worthless objects that drew them away from… — Ava Pennington Copy Share Image
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
