Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Tavi Gevinson
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
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Natalie Coughlin
People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.
Gary Lineker
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Beck
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Chris Evans
The supernatural does not exist.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
Harald zur Hausen
Well aware of both the continuity and contingency of human affairs, Adams and Madison searched the works of Tacitus and Voltaire and Locke like carpenters rummaging through their assortment of tools, knowing that all the pediments were jury-rigged, all the provisional, all the alliances temporary.
Lewis H. Lapham