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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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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the…
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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and…
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There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he…
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My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…
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We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of…
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I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather…
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild…
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In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and…
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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never…
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I'm at the borderline of my faith, I'm at the hinterland of my devotion. In the frontline of this battle of mine…
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