Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
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When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
"Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before.… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to… — James Garner Copy Share Image
I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down… — Jos Buttler Copy Share Image
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
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It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny… — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through -… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
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When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
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