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True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of… — Henri Nouwen
Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds then there will… — Rajneesh
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female… — Gloria Steinem
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers,… — Unknown Author
Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled... — Mavis Gallant
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye… — Mary McCormack
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in… — John M. Ford
Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet… — Prince Charles
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want.… — Gerhard Zeiler
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political… — Charles Edward Merriam
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to… — Isaac Asimov
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms. — Georg Baselitz
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker

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