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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
— Donald C. Peattie
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…
— Joseph Addison
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Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as…
— Robert Moses
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A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right
— Unknown Author
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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