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Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Become better listeners. Practice the art of listening in everything you do. Not just listening to yourself and your body, but listening… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
I think when people speak about faith, they always get stuck when they're starting to speak about the terrible things that happen… — Aviv Alush Copy Share Image
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
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The world on the outside was tougher than I imagined. I felt allergic to fresh air, and my feet hurt from wearing… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and… — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
I started training at a local gym in New Jersey, and the day of my high school graduation, I packed up everything… — Sonya Deville Copy Share Image
Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
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My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image