I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

— David Ricardo

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

— Noam Chomsky

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term…

— Barry Ritholtz

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,…

— Pico Iyer

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade

“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated…

— Jack Weatherford

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

— Wangechi Mutu

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

— Jed Diamond

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare…

— Bruce Schneier

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

— John H. Sununu

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

— Eric Topol

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main…

— Luke Mitchell