Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others,… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose,… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
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People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying Bernie Sanders did it for any kind of financial advantage. What we've got to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from… — Paula Garces Copy Share Image
The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image