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Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading 's “King Solomon's Ring,” I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study ...

Allan McLeod Cormack

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. How can Life grant u...

Amelia Earhart

Natürlich muss die Wahrheit im Kampf mit der Unwahrheit geschrieben werden und sie darf nicht etwas Allgemeines, Hohes, Vieldeutiges sein. Von dieser allgemeinen, hohen, vieldeutigen Art ist ja gerade die Unwahrheit. Wenn von einem gesagt wird, er h...

Bertolt Brecht

When we live according to our fears and our hates, our lives become small and defensive, lacking the deep, joyous generosity of God. If you find some part of your life where your daily round has grown thin and controlling and resentful, life with God...

Walter Brueggemann

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Think of that lit...

William Crookes

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as long as anatomists desire a broad comparative basi...

William King Gregory

would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to consider in what manner they could possibly be turned to practical account; and so we would not now be able to boast of the wo...

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Über des Propheten Gebein ist jedes Staubkorn ein Pfeiler von Licht, Aufrecht von der Kuppel des Grabes Bis hin zu der Kuppel des Himmels ... Und jene Ehrfurcht, die wie Deine Macht die Stirnen sich neigen läßt zeichnet im Horizont einen höheren ...

Al-Faituri

Allein zu sein ist nicht schlecht, wenn man in der Gesellschaft von Büchern ist.

Lycidas

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

A Woman of No Importance

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

Pierce Brosnan

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Robert G. Ingersoll

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

Claude Louis Berthollet

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Albert J. Nock

Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.

In the Heart of the Country

Nicht die Dinge an sich sind es, die uns beunruhigen, sondern unsere Vorstellung von den Dingen.

Epiktet

Männliches Schuldverweigerungs-Syndrom", erklärte mein Vater. "Von 2054 an ist das eine medizinisch anerkannte Krankheit.

Jasper Fforde

Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope von Schweetz: Top shelf! [fist-bump]

Wreck-It Ralph

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered...

Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new wa...

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