The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy… — Solomon Copy Share Image
You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The… — Willard R. Espy Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
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The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
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Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
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Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
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