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Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
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You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
They wouldn't be stereotypes necessarily. But they would be reasonable facsimiles to women as a class. A class not of women, per… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
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A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick.… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s.… — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
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My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock… — Jacoby Shaddix Copy Share Image
I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
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Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
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One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was… — Eddie Alvarez Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
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