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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am certain, too, that such a soul, such a heart and principles, as are hers are not to be found elsewhere… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly the most important source of religion is fear; this can be seen in the present day, since anything that causes alarm… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense… — Nancy Richmond Copy Share Image
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The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
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“White supremacy is the societal excrement that fertilizes racial disparities in America. It distorts the reality of historical and present day factors… — James A. Barlow Copy Share Image
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Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
“You are a practical man, Elijah. You do not moon romantically over Earth's past, despite your healthy interest in it. Nor do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust 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
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
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“But to follow Jesus is not to imitate him, for following him does not mean becoming a Jesus oneself. Nor does it… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
There are types of energy which lie outside the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately, these research efforts have not been given recognition. For the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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