Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal -… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder… — Doris Salcedo Copy Share Image
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders… — Karen Katafiasz Copy Share Image
“hear this if you can: if you want to reach him you have to go beyond yourself and when you finally arrive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those members of the executive council who voted against my candidacy in the absence of a cogent reason they could publicly present… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
The key to contentedness is not the absence of work; neither is it to cap each day with the witless abandon of… — Andrew Williams Copy Share Image
Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“But what you don’t realize, until you have to live it, is that it’s the absence of the person that’s the trouble.… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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