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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“For example, expositor Dr. John Gill in the 1700s said: The lower part of it, the atmosphere above, which are the clouds… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take… — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take… — Valerius Geist Copy Share Image
“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We are more similar to the outside world than we could ever imagine. The great truth is that our nature is analogous… — Paola Sanjinez Copy Share Image
“And whilst everyone believed that the universe began with Chaos, it did not. It began with Vacuos[Void], his granddaddy.But before Vacuos died,… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all… — Adriana Mather Copy Share Image
“They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“What is Self-realization? It is giving up the pretension that you are not the Self, that you are a mere body. People… — Swami Ramdas Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness works like a vaccine, boosting natural resilience. You undertake practices that can initially feel odd or counterintuitive. You practise in safe,… — Meg Salter Copy Share Image
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so,… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
“Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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“ What is Required by Paul Allen (fragment) 1 All elsewhere being World, how many times have I stood in the bright… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“Étaín could have refuted everything Grimnir claimed, had her mind not been shattered from exhaustion; she could have told him that when… — Scott Oden Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image