Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
The 80s and 90s were the beginning of the hollowing out of the American little democracy. It started with Reagan and went… — Eddie Pepitone Copy Share Image
First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a… — John Gielgud Copy Share Image
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to… — Matthew Crawford Copy Share Image
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I had just come off of doing a play in Los Angeles which actually got me the role. It was called Bent… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
