My means of entry to 'Christianity was singing in a choir. As a boy chorister, I grew up with Ancient and Modern,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
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I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
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