The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“Some were Levellers, an egalitarian movement that flowered briefly in the late 1640s. Strikingly modern in their aims, the Levellers wanted religious… — Charles Spencer Copy Share Image
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The… — Willa Cather 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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History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
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When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
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belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
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My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
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