There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men,… — Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
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Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
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After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
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Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
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The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow,… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
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God sounds kinda like a shitty father to me. If God was so powerful why'd he have to give his son up?… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
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Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image