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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Marco Rubio

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Scottish Proverb

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.

Michael Medved

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Prayers o

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Ilka Chase

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Paul D. Moody

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Jack Welch

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary A. Ward

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Tallulah Bankhead