The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

Sarojini Naidu, The Coromandel F

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Staness Jonekos

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

Gary Owens

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Joseph Rotblat

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Kahlil Gibran

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

Leslie Caron

In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Jim Hunt

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

Jessica Simpson

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Krist Novoselic