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...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
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If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I was thinking the first thing we should do is Expelliarmus, you know, the Disarming Charm. I know it's pretty basic but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago I used to have long, curly, mermaid hair that was amazing, and then I broke up with… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew… — Marco Reus Copy Share Image
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I don't think we're the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly,… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to… — Bas Rutten Copy Share Image
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image