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Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
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We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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I can't leave India helpless. This responsibility must be taken and I will continue to do so. For all good and bad… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
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The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of… — James Lind Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on… — Sanjay Dutt Copy Share Image
It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
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