Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live, I know your folks, you was a sucka… — O.C Copy Share Image
“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see… — Johnny Giles Copy Share Image
Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
As we trudge back through the woods, we reach a boulder, and both Gale and I turn our heads in the same… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Barack Obama thinks he's universally loved and adored because of that approval rating, which is a lie or a misrepresentation. It's mainly… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "What's it… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
