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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
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remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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“1150 AD, the north of England Melina avoided the eyes of her bodyguard. It was something she was becoming adept at, since… — Evie North Copy Share Image
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They… — Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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