Despite the vision and the far-seeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists felt a peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they...
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. —Anthony Burgess 6 In America, as was the topic earlier about ...
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. —Dennis Bergkamp 99 I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most...
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." –Marcus Aurelius "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." –Plato "When a ...
~ Dick Cavett (1936-11-19 age:81), on the death of Roger Ebert.Thirst The privation of water is justly ranked among the most dreadful of the miseries of our life… The violence of raving thirst has no parallel in the catalogue of human calamities… Our thirst had become now incessantly...
involvement in supporting research, I'm convinced we can improve the process of medical discovery and treatment. The choice is ours: We can sit back and wait for more cures and better treatments, or we can marshal our resources to solve medical problems sooner and save more lives. Maybe ...
In light of the above mentioned points, we can clearly reject any claims of this verse supporting "violence and warfare" as baseless. The textual context, historical context, legal context, and comparative analysis of this verse all demonstrate that this verse merely enjoins justice in return for...
the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste whole forebears designed it. ...
We have no eyes but for this splendid barbarian, who is lord over a few deserts and a modest ten million of ragamuffins -- a man who has never done anything to win our gratitude or excite our admiration, except that he managed to starve a million of his subjects to death in twelve ...