Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.


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D.H. LAWRENCE
We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE
The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE
It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE
Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE
People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE
Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE
Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE
I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE
There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR
On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who vote...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE
And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get int...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR
In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign hi...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your hear...
LAWRENCE BIXBY
Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE
Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on governm...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE
Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It’s not u...
MARK LAWRENCE
It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefie...
MARK LAWRENCE
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 As for the miseries and sins he heard of da...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least litt...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we se...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thér...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 I have quitted all forms of devotion and set p...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 You will tell me...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Use yourself then by deg...
BROTHER LAWRENCE
He had no qualms; "for", said he, "when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, 'I am u...
BROTHER LAWRENCE