"The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the city-states could vary widely. This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced. By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens."

-- Jostein Gaarder

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“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”
“Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.”
“I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.”
“You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.”

Source : "Faye Dunaway: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.
“I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it”
“A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.”
“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.”
“I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.”

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