we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting… — Erin Davie Copy Share Image
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact,… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
I'm also not sure that I look up to others as knowing what the hell is going on, except maybe Andre Agassi,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
The difference there is that the [Donald] Trump number on change is so much larger than the lead that the other two… — Amy Walter Copy Share Image
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
How would your life be different if you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
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