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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but…
— Michael Behe
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I…
— Michael Bloomberg
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very…
— Kirk Cameron
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he…
— Friedrich Engels
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I…
— Karl Pearson
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the…
— Alexander McQueen
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural…
— Karl Popper
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