Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ... CAMMIE MCGOVERN At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris... GRAHAM HANCOCK The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Did he say that? What was he thinking of? How did he know to tell the trustee to sell it [his HCA st... KATHLEEN CLARK He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost hims... CHRISTINE FEEHAN When Job lifted his face to the Storm, when he asked and was answered, he learned that he was very s... N.D. WILSON Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had d... WINNIE THE POOH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But... ROY L. PICKERING JR. As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically loo... MARK WHITBY I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN He took jump shots with a hand in his face. He shot the ball a lot but when he had to make them he m... BOB HILL He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi... C.S. LEWIS Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and wom... KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL My baby was bruised from his neck to his forehead. He had two pieces of meat taken out of his face; ... MACHELLE NICHOLS The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. ORLANDO BLOOM The first impression I had was hitting ground balls to him and you realized that he was a special pe... BUDDY BAILEY He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Aerric took another sip of his whiskey as his manservant left the room. His thoughts had distracted ... BRYNN MYERS It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the... FERNANDO PESSOA For 40 years a man was quiet observing ,while people that were close to him at the time took advanta... GARY F EVANS... May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings;... FULTON J. SHEEN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for... TRENTON LEE STEWART The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer... DOUGLAS ADAMS He's at his best with two strikes. He sets his mind on one pitch and it doesn't matter if it's on th... TOM GRAHAM When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced JOHN M SHEEHAN He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human d... WALT BLOMBERG Darkness is nothing but an opportunity to spread light JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with ... SUZANNE COLLINS Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m... FAT JOE Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more fait... ALFRED TENNYSON The Passion of Ayn Rand ERIC STOLTZ The Passion of Ayn Rand HELEN MIRREN God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as ... ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL He is truly a great man, a titan, he led people to combat the evil of Communism. His work on rehabil... YEVGENY DUBEYKOVSKY I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part... ANNE LAMOTT The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career workin... STEVE SABOL He came over after World War II. He was in Germany learning from engineers when he was 16 years old.... ANDREW KLENERT He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h... CASSANDRA CLARE I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... HANYA YANAGIHARA This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—l... SETH ADAM SMITH We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get s... GERRY MCGHEE There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he... NEAL SHUSTERMAN He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio... JAMES C. DOBSON You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de... WILHELM REICH Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th... KEVIN KELLY He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Adrian was a man who, in certain respects, could be seen as slightly less than average. He was sligh... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ... NEIL GAIMAN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o... JACQUES COUSTEAU [The delay - and the subsequent spread of lasers into many areas of technology - meant that the pate... NICK TAYLOR I didn't sign it," Neil said, looking up from his hands. He lifted his fingers to his face. He could... NORA SAKAVIC This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine... EDWARD ROMERO He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future. BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the ... BIBLE BIBLE But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the ... BIBLE They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he ha... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He was a brilliant man, a complex man. The march justified him as a military man, but he had a great... E. L. DOCTOROW In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it wor... DAVE DAVIS He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it wor... DAVE SOUTAR The employee wasn't stealing. Over 10 years, he had opportunities to take thousands and thousands of... JAMES JOHNSTON He was probably one of the most hard-working, caring people you'd ever meet. He had a great degree o... BOB MCDONALD Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in w... JULIA QUINN The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them. VIKRANT PARSAI She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO He chose people he thought would make a difference in the game and challenged them. He taught indivi... BUTCH LAWSON Everybody clapped enthusiastically and Dr. Marx popped up from behind the podium, where he had been ... GIDEON DEFOE He's just earned his stripes. It's been a natural maturation process. I came here five years ago and... BOBBY ENGRAM It was a heart-to-heart talk where he was feeling very badly that two of his friends had been accuse... JOSEPH TOWLE Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The... MATTHEW KELLY The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi... CHRISTINA ENGELA But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out ... JHUMPA LAHIRI
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AYN RAND Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing... AYN RAND The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the m... AYN RAND I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask a... AYN RAND We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. AYN RAND Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only wa... AYN RAND Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is th... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the wo... AYN RAND The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value ... AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ru... AYN RAND Get the hell out of my way! AYN RAND The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of ev... AYN RAND The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. AYN RAND The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the mor... AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. AYN RAND It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrass... AYN RAND Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. ... AYN RAND That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' i... AYN RAND Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take pre... AYN RAND Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of mans val... AYN RAND I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask ano... AYN RAND I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanctio... AYN RAND The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant... AYN RAND Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. AYN RAND Guilt is a rope that wears thin. AYN RAND Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 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AYN RAND We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon. AYN RAND Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the... AYN RAND When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. AYN RAND Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. AYN RAND There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permit... AYN RAND He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who tea... AYN RAND "Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is th... AYN RAND An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims... AYN RAND Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ... AYN RAND If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We a... AYN RAND All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean th... AYN RAND If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing. AYN RAND Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dr... AYN RAND If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ru... AYN RAND Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. AYN RAND Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. AYN RAND It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif... AYN RAND Beauty is a sense of harmony. AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the... AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th... AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s... AYN RAND If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me ... AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... 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