The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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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
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The majority of Russians considered Pussy Riot's stunt to be an act of religious hatred, rather than criticism against the close ties… — Moddi 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
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
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
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
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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 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
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
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
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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
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
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
Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me,… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
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Spend some time observing babies. They don't work; they poop in their pants, and they have no goals other than to expand,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I wear crop tops and stuff, but I genuinely like that style, so it's just has to be genuine. Once you start… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations,… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
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Our message to the world will be this. You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds,… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
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