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The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures,… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction.… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
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Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
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We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different… — Simon Calder Copy Share Image
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