Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots… — James Woods Copy Share Image
I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
One of the consequences of if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, is that all of us now are at risk of… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country.… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values,… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not… — Gerald Howarth Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore. — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of… — Ernie Isley Copy Share Image
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives. — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image