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- Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man,… — Douglas Adams
- How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — Peter Kreeft
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan
- A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith
- As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a… — Adam Sedgwick
- I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin
- It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural… — Arthur Keith
- Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment… — Luther Burbank
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien