"The collapse of the Tower of Babel is……" — Neil MacGregor

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• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh,"… — Douglas Adams
• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak… — Peter Kreeft
• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been… — 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… — Adam Sedgwick
• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than… — Benjamin Franklin
• I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of… — Charles Darwin
• It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage… — Arthur Keith
• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our… — Luther Burbank
• The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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