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Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
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Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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