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Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
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Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
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I've always been one to want to memorize everything and just be confident that I know all of the lines, but that… — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
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If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
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The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
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