Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was born in Neola, Iowa, but moved to Oklahoma at the age of four. After some work from 1932 to 1933 at the University of Tulsa, he began in 1935 a career in electrical wholesaling which was interrupted by four ye...

We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For...

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignora...

Robert Cedric Sherriff, son of Herbert Hankin and Constance Winder Sherriff, was born at Kingston-on-Thames, near London, where his father was an employee of the Sun Insurance Company. At seventeen, having been graduated from the Kingston ...

SOURCE: A review of Reason and Violence, in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXIII, No. 1, January 6, 1966, pp. 26-8. In the following review of Reason and Violence, Williams maintains that, while Laing's summaries of Jean-Paul Sartre's Sain...

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit....

However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the ...

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how...

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are....

Nature does not give to those who will not spend......

The impatient may not always be wrong on issues, but they are almost always wrong in their attitudes....

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision...

R. Madhavan is an Indian film actor who acts in regional Indian movies, with his priority language being Tamil. Other industries he has worked in are the Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengalai and the English industries. Sourced People should ...

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done. Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the ...

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed....

R. Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author. His first work is his high fantasy trilogy, The Prince of Nothing . Sourced The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds. "A Conversation...

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best....

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them....

Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach. Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles When our lives are focused on God, awe a...

We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile....

Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947) was a leader of the Conservative party of Canada and prime minister during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Richard Bedford Bennett was born at Hopewell, New Brunswick, on July 3, 1870, a descendant of...

The English historian and philosopher Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) did important historical research on Roman Britain and made original contributions to esthetics, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of mind. Born at Coni...

The British economic historian and social philosopher Richard Henry Tawney (1880-1962) was an influential Fabian socialist and an adviser to governments. Richard Tawney was born in Calcutta, India, on Nov. 30, 1880, the son of a distinguis...

R.L. Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. He has definitely made a humungous change since he was in school. When he was a kid,his family was very poor. Even though he chooses to live in an apartment in New Yo...

1939- American geneticist noted for his innovative work in gene therapy and applied genomics. In the early 1980s Blaese and his colleagues hit upon the idea that defective genes could be changed, and subsequently devised a strategy to deli...