"Historians often do not mention the truly important features of daily life, like games, concentrating instead on tedious political maneuvering."

"When a man is in a fair way and sees all life open in front of him, he seems to himself to make a very important figure in the world. His horse whinnies to him; the trumpets blow and the girls look ou…"

"All living organisms fall into one of three large groups that define three branches of evolution from a common progenitor."

"In view of these facts, the assertion is justified that Spinoza's influence on the cultural process of his own race in modern times was almost as powerful as was his influence upon the general cultura…"

"Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing."