This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Norman Spinrad

Retail is detail.

James Gulliver

The people are to be taken in small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

Marla Maples

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Walt Whitman, Emerson, 1892

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Wendy Cope

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

C. D. Broad

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Jeanne Moreau

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Kahlil Gibran