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In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
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A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
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[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
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The president has outlined a new strategy for success in Iraq, but in order for this effort to be successful the Iraqi… — John Boehner Copy Share Image