“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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“What I want to show is that because of the very nature of the historical disciplines, historians cannot show whether or not… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Morgan’s argument that prehistoric societies practiced group marriage (also known as the primal horde or omnigamy—the latter term apparently coined by French… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that… — The editors n+1 Copy Share Image
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
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“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
“In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day. — Liliʻuokalani Copy Share Image
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image