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'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
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Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown,… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
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The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies… — Keith Bradsher Copy Share Image
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