Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
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“They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“-Back there our sun doesn't speak. -Where's "there," Miss Marta? -Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers,… — Mia Couto Copy Share Image
“What is the most helpful thing we can do for the earth and her people, Kuan Yin?” “Kuan Yin is changing shape… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
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“Although the disappearance of the true wildwood [in the British Isles] occurred in the Neolithic period, before humanity began to record its… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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“Beverly had thought how strange and wonderful it would be if the earth were hurled far from its orbit, into the cold… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“The Americans are the nature of the future," she would announce in her hearty voice. "Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect on. At… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
LIFE IS A DIVINE GIFT. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“New places and new roles forced me into acute awareness of how others were responding to me. When a human is being… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
When the Spirit of God comes into us, He wants to be Himself in us. He wants His energy to be poured… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
When we obey the commandments of the Lord and serve His children unselfishly, the natural consequence is power from God—power to do… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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I must admit that when I chose the name, "vitamine," I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to… — Casimir Funk Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image